Places wickstar Wants to Go

Most of this “research national monument” still lies buried beneath the earth.

The home for all things Kool-Aid offers everything except a chance to actually enjoy the drink.

This historic Ellinwood hotel is also home to underground tunnels that were a popular haunt during Prohibition.

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

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

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

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

This towering wooden Sasquatch was carved with a chainsaw.

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

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

One of the largest private collections of fossils in the world.

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

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

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

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

This largest dinosaur tracksite in Wyoming is one of the only in the world from the Middle Jurassic Period.

Despite monuments in other locations, this spot in a South Dakota field is recognized by the U.S. National Geodetic Survey as the center of the 50 states.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

The crumbling structure is a rare surviving relic of the area's bygone mining industry.