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42 Corners, 42 Presidents
Rapid City - For decades, the civic leaders of Rapid City, South Dakota, have seen millions of tourists drive through town heading south to view the big heads at Mt. Rushmore. Full story

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Devil's Gulch - Jesse James Jumped Here
Garretson, South Dakota
Legendary leap for a legendary law breaker.
Cosmos Mystery Area
Rapid City, South Dakota
Two identical shacks distorted by the forces of gravity and crowd flow.
Porter Sculpture Park
Montrose, South Dakota
Features a 60-foot-tall, 25-ton sculpture of a bull's head -- and its creator may be lurking inside.
1880 Cowboy Town
Buffalo Ridge, South Dakota
Animated characters creak to life to tell their stories of the Wild West.
Chief Crazy Horse Memorial
Crazy Horse, South Dakota
Bigger than Mount Rushmore. And more than a head.
Petrified Wood Park
Lemmon, South Dakota
Forest of frozen fossils -- hundreds of spires, buildings and piles made from petrified wood in the 1930s.
Skull and Bones of Hero the Circus Elephant
Vermillion, South Dakota
A town's entire supply of ammunition was spent bringing down this misunderstood giant.
Hugh Glass Monument
Shadehill, South Dakota
Frontiersman Hugh Glass was nearly killed by a grizzly bear here in 1823. Glass revived and crawled, with a broken leg, infection and fever, 200 miles to safety.
Presidents Park
Lead, South Dakota
Giant busts of all the US Presidents loom along a forested winding path in this peaceful sculpture park created by David Adickes.
Dinosaur Park
Rapid City, South Dakota
Free park of concrete dinosaurs stand on a hill above Rapid City.