This beautiful ancient site is dotted with perforated sandstone pillars considered sacred by some Native American groups.

Population: 1.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

America's largest man-made forest was planted in an effort to bring back the past.

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

A rancher expanding a natural spring for his cattle came up with bones – lots and lots of them.

Other-worldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.

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.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

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

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

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a 70-foot-long chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

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

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

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

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

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

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

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

This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.