Isak Heartstone, a 15-foot wooden troll made out of recycled materials.

A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.

A small town built on an abandoned airfield has former runways as streets and a bar and grill in an old airplane hangar.

Seth Bullock, the sheriff of Deadwood, built this town immediately after Teddy Roosevelt’s death in 1919.

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

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

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

Visit a church sculpted from hardened lava.

Home of a French nobleman's short-lived attempt at raising cattle in the Badlands of North Dakota.

This colossal reptile celebrates the history of the now-defunct Canadian Turtle Derby.

This park straddling the United States-Canadian border has been a symbol of peace since 1932.

A rim-made reptile in North Dakota.

The U.S.' first commercial park dedicated entirely to flying drones.

These dramatic cola-colored falls have appeared in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and a song by Sufjan Stevens.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

This Native American cemetery features decades-old spirit house hidden behind pine trees and moss.

The only place to see live frogs don pigtails and top hats, then eat their scrumptious legs.

A miscalculation turns a very shallow freshwater lake into a very deep saltwater lake.

A grandiose octagonal home crowned by a large dome stands out among the antebellum mansions.

Florence’s mother built a stairway down to her daughter’s coffin so she could comfort her during storms.

This monument to the victims of a tragic explosion is said to turn and look at passing cars.

A 200-year-old bar is all that remains of one Mississippi River town's rough-and-tumble past.

A 19th-century Gothic, castle-like statehouse by the Mississippi River.

The LSU mascot lived on the college campus in one of the most impressive tiger habitats in the country.