Places taylorjatice Wants to Go

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

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

The oldest extant wooden jail in South Dakota and possibly the United States. 

More than 7,000 gallons of water pour over these cascading red quartzite waterfalls every second.

These cliff and rock formations are made out of Sioux Quartzite.

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

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

Calidum et Deliciose Succosum!

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

An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.

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

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

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

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

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

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

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

A take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict.

The pop art icon's gravesite is broadcast 24 hours a day on his museum's website.

This whimsical sculpture garden is a local treasure.

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.

The remnants of this Douglas fir predate Columbus's arrival in North America.