South Dakota

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Death Chair of Wild Bill Hickok
Deadwood, South Dakota
Deadwood has become fashionable again, but Wild Bill Hickok's Death Chair has been drawing visitors for over 70 years.
Graves of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane
Deadwood, South Dakota
Two of the Wild West's best-known characters are buried next to each other in Deadwood. Bill didn't arrive until three years after he was dead.
Broken Boot Gold Mine
Deadwood, South Dakota
A real Deadwood gold mine, conveniently flat and compact for tourists, and right alongside the main road through town.
Days of '76 Museum
Deadwood, South Dakota
What began as a museum about Deadwood's annual parade and rodeo is now filled with a wide range of Western memorabilia. And parade and rodeo stuff.
World's 3rd Largest Bronze Sculpture
Deadwood, South Dakota
Three outdoor larger-than-life bronze Indians, horses -- and 14 buffalo are about to be stampeded off a cliff. Part of an attraction about Lakota culture, bankrolled by movie star Kevin Costner.

Sights for Oddball Excursions

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.
Porter Sculpture Park
Montrose, South Dakota
Fanciful junk art statues, including a 40-foot-tall horse and 60-foot-tall, 25-ton bull's head.
Pioneer Auto Show Museum
Murdo, South Dakota
Sprawling vehicle collection includes the last surviving "General Lee" from the Dukes of Hazzard TV series, and a car made of wood.
Reptile Gardens
Rapid City, South Dakota
A popular Black Hills reptile ranch and classic tourist attraction, with performing chickens in boxes and the largest collection of reptiles on Earth, including a giant crocodile named Maniac.
Dinosaur Park
Rapid City, South Dakota
Free park of concrete dinosaurs standing on a hill above Rapid City.
Cosmos Mystery Area
Rapid City, South Dakota
Two identical shacks distorted by the forces of gravity and crowd flow.
America's Street Corner Presidents
Rapid City, South Dakota
Statues of every American President stand on the street corners of downtown Rapid City.
America's Founding Fathers Exhibit
Rapid City, South Dakota
Declaration of Independence painting rendered as 47 3D sculptures. After learning about the Founding Fathers, head to the musket range to shoot at Redcoat targets.
Concrete Outline of USS South Dakota
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
The most decorated battleship of World War II is an outline on a lawn dotted with salvaged parts.
Wall Drug Store
Wall, South Dakota
This mega-tourist trap has been a vacation stop for generations of thirsty travelers -- it's much more than a drug store. Giant sign out front for those who want photo-proof of their visit.
Center of the Nation Monument
Belle Fourche, South Dakota
Belle Fourche is the Geographic Center of the U.S. A big "stand on the Center" monument proves it.
Six-Ton Prairie Dog
Cactus Flat, South Dakota
Twelve feet of paint-chipped, weather-worn, prairie-dog-resembling cement glory, next to a prairie dog town and the Ranch Store gift shop.
Adams Museum: Deadwood's Attic
Deadwood, South Dakota
The entertaining detritus of Deadwood, including the gold nugget of Potato Creek Johnny and a two-headed calf.
Devil's Gulch: Jesse James Jumped Here
Garretson, South Dakota
Legendary leap for a legendary law breaker.
National Presidential Wax Museum
Keystone, South Dakota
Every American President, from Washington to Trump, they're all waxen and eerily lifelike. Nixon greets quarantined Moon Men!
Hugh Glass Bear Battle Sculpture
Lemmon, South Dakota
Dramatic scrap iron sculpture by local artist John Lopez of frontiersman Hugh Glass in death battle with a bear. Displayed inside a the Grand River Museum.
Corn Palace
Mitchell, South Dakota
With its mad mix of onion domes and minarets, this corn-plastered edifice looks like it was drop-kicked out of czarist Russia.
Disputed Grave of Sitting Bull
Mobridge, South Dakota
Two towns on either side of the Dakota border claim to have Indian chief's bones. Which to believe? This burial site features a nice monument.