Places kokopoko Wants to Go

This giant fiberglass cod celebrates Madison's self-proclaimed status as the U.S. capital of lutefisk.

A town honors its legacy of traditional American Indian pipe carving with one gigantic pipe.

America's smallest town is run by its single citizen/mayor/librarian/bartender.

This stone, said to have once been a young woman, is sacred to the Dakota and Lakota nations.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

An ode to South Dakota's state fish.

The final resting place of the Hunkpapa Lakota leader Tatanka Iyotaka, commonly known by the English translation Sitting Bull.

From this scenic rockface, you can still see the paths Western pioneers followed.

In addition to fishing and camping, this spot in Nebraska’s Sandhills is one of the world’s darkest places.

Long before guestbooks and hotels, frontier travelers signed their names on this rock face.

A monument to the forgotten French explorers and their landmark expedition.

An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

The final resting place of the West’s original scribe.

This monument remembers one of the manliest men of the frontier who fought a grizzly before dragging himself 200 miles to safety.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

Meet cowboys and ancient beardogs at this one-of-a-kind crossroads of Western history.

A crumbling ghost town on the South Dakota prairie.

Site of the 1879 Cheyenne Outbreak and the site where famed Sioux chief Crazy Horse met his fate.

A fur trade museum in western Nebraska stands on the reconstructed footprint of a 19th-century trading post.

This Great Plains museum pays tribute to both the prosperity and tragedy of the North American fur trade.

Otherworldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Abandoned businesses, homes, and rusted cars are all that remains of this stopover town.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.