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The statue honors the booming birds Rothsay, Minnesota, is famous for.

This wooden troll marks the starting point for Detroit Lakes' troll scavenger hunt.

This geodesic gallery holds a collection of painted spheres that make traditional canvases look lazy by comparison.

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

Giant six-pack could provide one person a six-pack a day for 3,351 years.

Ever wanted to can Spam?

This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.

This early 20th-century rural drinking fountain provides water for both horses and humans.

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

This soaring sculpture and Sioux Falls landmark represents the leap of faith taken to make one's dreams come true.

More than 7,000 gallons of water pour over these cascading red quartzite waterfalls every second.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

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

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

A relic of roadside lore and perhaps the first of its kind in North America.

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 towering wooden Sasquatch was carved with a chainsaw.

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

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

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

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

This museum is dedicated to telling the story of dinosaurs from a creationist perspective. 

The oldest badlands in North America, Makoshika State Park takes it name from the Lakota words for broken land.