Places maccasimmons Wants to Go

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Known as "The Hill of the Little Devils."

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

An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

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

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

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

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

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

An off-the-beaten-path place to literally hang beneath Milwaukee's Holton Street Bridge.

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

Medical museum focused on antique anesthesiology equipment.

A six-story-tall golden pyramid, surrounded by a moat.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

A renowned Civil War veteran, this Bald eagle now presides over the Wisconsin State Assembly.

A sacred Ojibwe site covered in pictographs next to Lake Superior.

Whimsical sculptures dot a woodland path surrounding their creator's old summer cottage.

Taxidermy and miniatures come together to create this unique museum.

Part taxidermy workshop, part natural history museum this Michigan destination shows off its dead animals and helps you mount your own.