Places Hosch Wants to Go

An ode to South Dakota's state fish.

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

The final resting place of the Hunkpapa Lakota leader Tatanka Iyotaka, commonly known by the English translation Sitting Bull.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

This simple badlands butte is the highest point in North Dakota and may be the only high point to charge admission.

An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

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

A monument to the forgotten French explorers and their landmark expedition.

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

This Wyoming town is fascinated by a particular mythical creature.

Long before guestbooks and hotels, frontier travelers signed their names on this rock face.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

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

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

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

One of the first intercontinental ballistic missile sites in the United States.

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

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

Calidum et Deliciose Succosum!

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

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

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

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.