This massive railroad spike celebrates the 1939 premiere of the movie “Union Pacific.”

An obelisk commemorating Lincoln's role in connecting the coasts.

The humble beginnings of the man known for his lavish "champagne" music.

This museum is a full-size replica of an original church constructed during the 13th-century.

The ruins of Theodore Roosevelt's beloved ranch stand in a forgotten corner of a national park named after him.

Home of a French nobleman's short-lived attempt at raising cattle in the Badlands of North Dakota.

Mennes invented the tags we all place annually upon our license plates, and his story is told frankly and in full upon his headstone.

This monument remembers one of the manliest men of the frontier who fought a grizzly before dragging himself 200 miles to safety.

This sculpture gallery is home to magnificent beasts made of scrap metal and found objects.

An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

The world's largest Holstein cow.

One man's quest to save his town with a trail of record-breaking sculptures.

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

A riverside park built around the ruins of a massive dam that collapsed in 1909.

America's largest viking stands in a Minnesota city that believes it was visited by the ancient nords.

14th century Norse artifacts in Northwestern Minnesota could have proved a Viking landing before Columbus.

A winged-helmed, sword-brandishing tribute to German Americans.

A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

This replica of an 8th century burial ship actually sailed to Norway before returning home to Minnesota.

"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"

After four years of grasshopper plagues, this chapel was erected as a plea to God to make them end.