Places kokopoko Wants to Go

Dedicated to the history of the 1,000 nuclear missiles that once covered the Great Plains.

The crumbling structure is a rare surviving relic of the area's bygone mining industry.

A ghost town now swarming with dozens of prairie dogs.

This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.

One of the first intercontinental ballistic missile sites in the United States.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

The oldest extant wooden jail in South Dakota and possibly the United States. 

This vintage train once gave new meaning to “swimming upstream.”

The empty town of Scenic, South Dakota, is owned by a church in the Philippines.

Before its closure in 2002, this South Dakota mine was the largest and deepest gold mine in Western Hemisphere.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."

One of the largest private collections of fossils in the world.

Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.

Calidum et Deliciose Succosum!

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

The largest spring in Northwest Arkansas is also home to a sprawling botanical gardens and a historically significant bluff.

This century-old roadside attraction is full of bizarre rock formations.

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

The largest protected conservation area in the Ozarks—a region that stretches into northern Arkansas and southern Missouri.

Where hills of dirt conceal the burial ground of one of the most powerful ancient Native American societies.

A beautifully restored 19th-century house that’s possibly haunted.

A beautiful South Korean gate and garden in Little Rock honors American Taekwondo.

One believer transformed a local curiosity into proof of Vikings on the Great Plains.