Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near South Dakota

While in South Dakota, you might enjoy a visit to:

Abe Lincoln never visited South Dakota, but his robot is part of a fake 1880s South Dakota main street, built by a retired school teacher. Wild West robots and cryptic displays, too.
~30 miles from Madison.

Weary Wil, hobo king of SDSU's Hobo Day, is immortalized as a nine-foot-tall bronze statue by alumnus David Anderson. An adjacent Hobo Day Gallery features a restored 1912 "Bummobile."
~27 miles from Madison.

Hero the circus elephant finally decided he'd had enough. The town museum displays artifacts of that bloody day.
~35 miles from Madison.

With its mad mix of onion domes and minarets, this corn-plastered edifice looks like it was drop-kicked out of czarist Russia.
~50 miles from Madison.

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