North Dakota
Find North Dakota travel tips, stories, field reports and maps for unusual tourist attractions and landmarks.
Trunkations
High Scrap Metal Prices Threaten Smiley
Grand Forks - For years the city council in Grand Forks, North Dakota, has talked of tearing down "Smiley," the city’s beloved baby blue water tower with dual-sided grins (and bow ties). Full story
Featured Attractions
Geographical Center of North America
Rugby, North Dakota
Rock obelisk marks an important spot on your map.
Tommy Turtle
Bottineau, North Dakota
A giant turtle drives a giant snowmobile in Bottineau, North Dakota.
Enchanted Highway
Regent, North Dakota
Large, fanciful sculptures in the middle of nowhere, soon to become somewhere if enough people come to look.
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Notable places we've visited or heard about.
- Antler: World's Largest Historical Quilt
- Belcourt: Four Arrows Monument
- Bismarck: North Dakota Hall of Fame
- Bottineau: Four Chaplains Memorial
- Bottineau: Tommy the Turtle
- Casselton: Largest Stack of Empty Oil Cans [tips]
- Center: Hazel Miner's Lame Memorial
- Cooperstown: Ronald Reagan Peace Through Strength Missile Silo Historic Site
- Dunseith: Turtle Made of Wheel Rims
- Fairmont: Sermon in Stone
- Fargo: Roger Maris Museum
- Fargo: Walk of Fame
- Fort Ransom: Viking Statue
- Fort Yates: Battle for Sitting Bull's Grave
- Garrison: Zombie Golf Giant
- Garrison: Walleye Capital of the World
- Grand Forks: Fabulous Kegs Drive-In [tips]
- Hatton: Memorial Arch to Air Mail Pilot
- Hickson to Streeter: America's Longest Straight Road
- Jamestown: World's Largest Buffalo
- Karlsruhe/Verendyre: Man Who Mapped North Dakota
- Kulm: Birthplace of Angie Dickinson
- LaMoure: Mr. Wheat's Missile
- Merricourt: Indian Massacre, Rare Rock Pile
- Minot: Dala Horse statue [tips]
- New Salem: Salem Sue the Cow
- New Town: Earl Bunyan statue [tips]
- Nome: Standing Rock
- Parshall: Paul Broste Rock Museum [tips]
- Regent: The Enchanted Highway [tips]
- Rugby: Geographical Center of North America
- Rugby: World's Tallest Salesman
- San Haven: International Peace Garden
- Steele: Giant Sandhill Crane [tips]
- Strasburg: Birthplace of Lawrence Welk
- Wahpeton: Giant Catfish [tips]
- Walhalla: Martyrs Graves
- Walhalla: Oldest Building in North Dakota
