Places Opinicus Wants to Go

Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.

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

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

Dedicated to the history of the 1,000 nuclear missiles that once covered the Great Plains.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

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

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

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

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

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

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.

Where you can photograph wild black bears without worrying about becoming dinner.

A futuristic climate change study is nestled deep within this public land.

Summer in the "Turtle Racing Capital of the World" means rousing weekly reptile races.

This once prosperous community was home to European settlers and the Ojibwe.

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

Built after the 1991 discovery of one of the world's most complete T.rex skeletons in the nearby hills.

Journey through the largest remaining peat bogs in the contiguous United States to see the wilderness as it once was.

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

This ambitious attraction was the brain child of a lake resort impresario, and built by the WPA.

Home of St. Urho, the fictional patron saint of Finland.

This sprawling building built in 1890 was one of Minnesota’s earliest and largest mental health facilities.

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