Places Pengwn Wants to Go

One devoted couple has donated multiple recreations of Michelangelo's sculptures to this South Dakota town.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

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

One of the world's most definitive collections of musical instruments, spanning all cultures and historical periods.

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

The highest point in Iowa, while not that impressive to mountain states, has earned its own monuments.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

An impressive collection of farm equipment and other artifacts from life on the prairie.

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

One North Dakota man's vast collection of rare rocks, polished orbs, and geological wonders.

On the windswept Dakota plains there is a memorial to circus workers who were struck down by lightning.

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

This sky-high radio mast is formerly the tallest man-made structure in the world.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

These former Cold War launch sites have been preserved for tourists to see where the button might have been pushed.

A true roadside icon standing on the same plains that the herds once roamed.

Three legendary, living albino buffalo roaming their pastures for all to see.

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

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

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

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

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

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

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