Places KR Peart Wants to Go

Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.

Creek water that starts here has a 50/50 chance of ending up in the Atlantic or the Pacific.

This rustic old building is said to be the most photographed barn in America.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

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

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

At the turn of the 20th century, the Minnehaha County courthouse played host to sensational public divorce trials.

One dedicated priest constructed this beautiful stone grotto by hand from 1926-1933.

A crumbling ghost town on the South Dakota prairie.

This 19th-century religious artwork was once highly controversial—because it was donated to the church by a divorcee.

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

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

Despite monuments in other locations, this spot in a South Dakota field is recognized by the U.S. National Geodetic Survey as the center of the 50 states.

This towering wooden Sasquatch was carved with a chainsaw.

One of the world's most definitive collections of musical instruments, spanning all cultures and historical periods.

An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

Yes, this monument is aware that it is about 20 miles away from the actual center of the United States.

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.