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Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.

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

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

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

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

Known as "The Hill of the Little Devils."

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

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

An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

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

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

This Wild West attraction is alive with glitching automatons.

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

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

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

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

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

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

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 place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.