Places NiftyChick Wants to Go

Site of the 1879 Cheyenne Outbreak and the site where famed Sioux chief Crazy Horse met his fate.

America's largest man-made forest was planted in an effort to bring back the past.

This Great Plains museum pays tribute to both the prosperity and tragedy of the North American fur trade.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

This Nebraska museum was once the smallest courthouse in America.

Nebraska’s longest-running summer theater is a musical tribute to cowboy culture.

A fascinating collection of art made from petrified wood and fossils by two octogenarian twin brothers.

Visit the century-old plant nursery that grows trees from space.

This Nebraska town wants to double its population with plywood cut-outs of townsfolk.

This town of 100 people has approximately one bronze sculpture for every two residents.

More than 150 working bells from churches and one-room-schoolhouses across the Great Plains are assembled in one man's yard.

When an ancient supervolcano erupted, some of Nebraska's prehistoric animals were forever preserved in ash.

Otherworldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.

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

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

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

Seth Bullock, the sheriff of Deadwood, built this town immediately after Teddy Roosevelt’s death in 1919.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

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

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.

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.

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

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