Oldest North Dakota Building
Walhalla, North Dakota
Part of our "Who Cares?" Tour (which, frankly, we don't have the willpower to finish writing).
It's a perfectly preserved, hand-hewn log cabin, built in 1843, today surrounded by wheat fields. The "oldest standing structure built by Euro-Americans in North Dakota," according to a bronze plaque bolted to a nearby rock. It is, however, not the oldest building currently in North Dakota; that honor goes to the Sigdal House, built in 1771 and imported from Norway, which now stands in Minot's Scandinavian Heritage Park.
The state actually pays someone to sit out here, all day, in this isolated house, waiting for visitors. Make that person's day -- or week. Stop by.