Garretson, South Dakota
Palisades State Park
These cliff and rock formations are made out of Sioux Quartzite.
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Garretson, South Dakota
These cliff and rock formations are made out of Sioux Quartzite.
Wall, South Dakota
The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Chef Lawrence West serves up Indian tacos, wojapi, and other Lakota dishes at the brick-and-mortar incarnation of his popular food truck.
Rapid City, South Dakota
South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.
Elk Horn, Iowa
In rural Iowa, an imported 19th-century windmill overlooks an unlikely enclave of Danish culture.
Audubon, Iowa
The World's Largest Bull.
Sac City, Iowa
Eight feet in diameter and more than 24 feet around.
Blue Mounds, Wisconsin
This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.
Detroit, Michigan
The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
These grassy undulations on a stretch of University of Michigan campus aren't bad landscaping, they're art.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
The 10-foot-tall vegetables belong to Michigan’s first food rescue program.
Walcott, Iowa
The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.
Baraboo, Wisconsin
At this Wisconsin museum there are real ducks, fake ducks, duck calls and a Duck Blind.
Benton Harbor, Michigan
The remains of a religious colony, its amusement park, zoo, and baseball empire.
Fountain City, Wisconsin
This punny mirror of another Wisconsin attraction is exactly what it sounds like.
La Crosse, Wisconsin
Giant six-pack could provide one person a six-pack a day for 3,351 years.
Sparta, Wisconsin
These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.
Spring Green, Wisconsin
A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.
Dodgeville, Wisconsin
One of the last surviving C-97s sits in a field in front of a Wisconsin inn.
Kenosha, Wisconsin
Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.
Saint Joseph, Michigan
This museum remembers an apocalyptic cult that became more famous for baseball than religious radicalism.
East Lansing, Michigan
Housed in the university planetarium, the thousand-strong collection of tiny towelettes includes a used one from the hosts of Car Talk.