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  • Salem Sue, World's Largest Holstein Cow

    Salem Sue, World's Largest Holstein Cow

    New Salem, North Dakota

    Salem Sue, who's already big, towers above New Salem on a rare North Dakota hill.

  • Enchanted Highway

    Enchanted Highway

    Regent, North Dakota

    Gary Greff's towering, fanciful metal sculptures appear every few miles along a lonely road to his way-off-the-beaten path town.

  • Enchanted Castle

    Enchanted Castle

    Regent, North Dakota

    Enchanted Highway creator Gary Greff transformed his old high school into a medieval-themed motel.

  • Geese in Flight: Enchanted Highway

    Geese in Flight: Enchanted Highway

    Regent, North Dakota

    Largest metal sculpture in the world, according to Guinness World Records. Northernmost point of the Enchanted Highway.

  • Fisherman's Dream: Enchanted Highway

    Fisherman's Dream: Enchanted Highway

    Regent, North Dakota

    Giant fish cavort, while an angler sits in a boat suspended 70 feet in the air. Monumental sculpture on the Enchanted Highway.

  • Sir Albert and the Dragon

    Sir Albert and the Dragon

    Regent, North Dakota

    41-foot-tall knight guards the Enchanted Castle hotel from a 100-foot-long dragon. A Gary Greff junk metal sculpture.

  • W'eel Turtle: World's Largest

    W'eel Turtle: World's Largest

    Dunseith, North Dakota

    This titan was welded together from over 2,000 steel automobile wheel rims; its head alone weighs over a ton.

  • Woodchipper from the Movie Fargo

    Woodchipper from the Movie Fargo

    Fargo, North Dakota

    Star of the Coen Brothers' hit movie. the woodchipper displayed at the city's Visitors Center includes a mannequin leg sticking out of its hopper.

  • World's Largest Buffalo

    World's Largest Buffalo

    Jamestown, North Dakota

    This mighty bull bison -- built in 1959 out of sixty tons of steel and concrete -- keeps its unblinking eye on the Jamestown grain elevator.

  • New Geographic Center of North America

    New Geographic Center of North America

    Robinson, North Dakota

    Tiny town (pop. 37) decided that the old Center was bogus, claimed the title in 2015.

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