South Dakota Attractions and Oddities
All the weird attractions, hidden sights, and unusual places in South Dakota. Visitor Tips, news, stories, field reports. City roadtrip recommendations: Deadwood | Pierre | Rapid City | Sioux Falls
Also see: Gone But Not Forgotten - Closed classic attractions
South Dakota Page | South Dakota Map
-
Aberdeen: Storybook Land - Belle Fourche: Abandoned Shepherds Monument
- Belle Fourche: Center of the Nation Monument
- Belle Fourche: Center of the Nation: 50 States
- Brookings: Weary Wil and Dirty Lil
- Buffalo Ridge: Buffalo Ridge Ghost Town (1880 Cowboy Town)
- Buffalo: Statues of Famous Horse and Wolf
- Cactus Flat: Six-Ton Prairie Dog
- Canton: Asylum for Indians Marker and Grave
- Chamberlain: Big Pheasant Made of Railroad Spikes
- Chamberlain: Dignity, Native American Giantess
- Colome: Outhouse Museum of South Dakota
- Crazy Horse: Crazy Horse Memorial
- Custer: Buffalo Statues
- Custer: Dino the Flintstones Dinosaur
- Custer: Mini Dinosaur Park
- Dallas: Frank Day's Cowboy Museum
- De Smet: Homestead Rock of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Deadwood: Adams Museum: Deadwood's Attic
- Deadwood: Broken Boot Gold Mine
- Deadwood: Brothel Deadwood
- Deadwood: Celebrity Hotel: Relics on Display
- Deadwood: Days of '76 Museum
- Deadwood: Deadwood: Signs and Wonders
- Deadwood: Deadwood: Sin, Gold, Blood
- Deadwood: Death Chair of Wild Bill Hickok
- Deadwood: Graves of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane
- Deadwood: Neon Tootsie the Coyote
- Deadwood: Original Location of Saloon No. 10
- Deadwood: Preacher Smith Monument
- Deadwood: Sitting Bill
- Deadwood: Teddy Roosevelt Friendship Tower
- Deadwood: Wild Bill's Stone Head
- Deadwood: World's 3rd Largest Bronze Sculpture
- Deadwood: World's Largest Log Chair
- Elkton: Hero the Elephant and the Heintz Airship
- Ellsworth A.F.B.: Sgt. Bismarck and Shep - Air Force Mascots
- Ellsworth AFB: South Dakota Air and Space Museum
- Faith: Scrap Metal T Rex Sue
- Farmer: St. Peter's Rock Grotto
- Fort Pierre: Rodeo Champion Weather Vane
- Garretson: Devil's Gulch: Jesse James Jumped Here
- Gregory: Big Pheasant
- Harrisburg: Abby Normal's Museum of the Strange
- Henry: Big Pheasant Statue
- Henry: Tiny Church for Travelers
- Hermosa: Big President Heads
- Hermosa: Madonna Of The Prairies
- Hill City: 30-Foot-Tall Smokey Bear
- Hill City: Black Hills Institute - Dinosaurs
- Hill City: Ornate Junk Metal Horses
- Hill City: World's Largest Teddy Bear Collection
- Hot Springs: Future 50-Foot-Long Woolly Mammoth
- Hot Springs: Kidney Springs 1922 Gazebo
- Hot Springs: Mammoth Site: Indoor Boneyard
- Huron: Two-headed Calf - Dakotaland Museum
- Huron: White Buffalo Statue
- Huron: World's Largest Pheasant
- Interior: Horse with Rushmore Heads
- Kadoka: Whitetail Deer Made of Car Parts
- Keystone: Beautiful Rushmore Cave
- Keystone: Big Thunder Gold Mine
- Keystone: Borglum Historical Center, Rushmore Borglum Story
- Keystone: Clinton Rock
- Keystone: Large Mt. Rushmore Chair
- Keystone: Mount Rushmore
- Keystone: National Presidential Wax Museum
- Keystone: World's Largest Wooden Bigfoot
- Lead: Mining Museum, Simulated Gold Mine
- Lead: Open Pit Mine Hole
- Lemmon: Cowboy Riding a Dinosaur
- Lemmon: Hugh Glass Bear Battle Sculpture
- Lemmon: Petrified Wood Park
- Lemmon: Petrified Wood Park Museum
- Lemmon: Scrap Metal Bronco Buster
- Madison: Car Lot White Buffalo
- Milbank: 1880s Windmill
- Milbank: The Monolith
- Miller: Cows on Poles
- Mitchell: Corn Palace
- Mitchell: Cornelius, Corn Palace Mascot
- Mitchell: Prehistoric Indian Village
- Mitchell: Thunder Bunny: Jackalope Jackrabbit
- Mobridge: Cowboy Rides a Giant Walleye
- Mobridge: Disputed Grave of Sitting Bull
- Mobridge: Fool Soldiers Monument
- Montrose: Porter Sculpture Park
- Murdo: Original 1880 Town
- Murdo: Pioneer Auto Show Museum
- Murdo: Skeleton Man Walking Skeleton Dinosaur
- Nemo: Wonderland Cave
- Newell: Sheep Capital of the Nation
- Oacoma: Al's Oasis - Big Buffalo
- Oelrichs: Skeletal Metal Rancher Monument
- Philip: Minuteman Missile National Historic Site
- Philip: Prairie Dog Town At Gas Station
- Philip: Scrap Metal Horse
- Pierre: Golden Lady: a Mom-ument
- Pierre: Governor # 1: Arthur Calvin Mellette
- Pierre: Governor # 3: Andrew E. Lee
- Pierre: Governor # 4: Charles Nelson Herreid
- Pierre: Governor # 6: Coe I. Crawford
- Pierre: Governor # 7: Robert Scadden Vessey
- Pierre: Governor # 8: Frank M. Byrne
- Pierre: Governor # 9: Peter Norbeck
- Pierre: Governor #10: William H. McMaster
- Pierre: Governor #12: William J. Bulow
- Pierre: Governor #13: Warren Everett Green
- Pierre: Governor #14: Thomas Matthew Berry
- Pierre: Governor #15: Leslie Jensen
- Pierre: Governor #17: Merrell Q. Sharpe
- Pierre: Governor #19: Sigurd Anderson
- Pierre: Governor #20: Joe Foss
- Pierre: Governor #22: Archie Gubbrud
- Pierre: Governor #24: Frank Leroy Farrar
- Pierre: Governor #27: William John Janklow
- Pierre: Governor #29: Walter Dale Miller
- Pierre: Governor #30: Marion Michael Rounds
- Pierre: Really Small Schoolhouse
- Pierre: Saluting Soldiers
- Pierre: South Dakota National Guard Museum
- Pierre: Trail of Governors
- Pierre: Wayward State Line Monument
- Pringle: Bicycle Sculpture
- Rapid City: 12th Century Replica Church
- Rapid City: America's Street Corner Presidents
- Rapid City: Art Alley
- Rapid City: Bear Country USA
- Rapid City: Berlin Wall Segments
- Rapid City: Black Hills Caverns
- Rapid City: City of Presidents Info Center
- Rapid City: Cosmos Mystery Area
- Rapid City: Dinosaur Park
- Rapid City: Dinosaur of Old Ike Murphy
- Rapid City: Junk Buffalo With Bonus Mini-Sculptures
- Rapid City: Prospector Statue Of Johnny One Feather
- Rapid City: Putz-n-Glo Indoor Black Light Miniature Golf
- Rapid City: Reptile Gardens
- Rapid City: Spin a 4-Ton Rock
- Rapid City: Statue # 1: George Washington
- Rapid City: Statue # 2: John Adams
- Rapid City: Statue # 3: Thomas Jefferson
- Rapid City: Statue # 4: James Madison
- Rapid City: Statue # 5: James Monroe
- Rapid City: Statue # 6: John Quincy Adams
- Rapid City: Statue # 7: Andrew Jackson
- Rapid City: Statue # 8: Martin van Buren
- Rapid City: Statue # 9: William Henry Harrison
- Rapid City: Statue #10: John Tyler
- Rapid City: Statue #11: James K. Polk
- Rapid City: Statue #12: Zachary Taylor
- Rapid City: Statue #13: Millard Fillmore
- Rapid City: Statue #14: Franklin Pierce
- Rapid City: Statue #15: James Buchanan
- Rapid City: Statue #16: Abraham Lincoln
- Rapid City: Statue #17: Andrew Johnson
- Rapid City: Statue #18: Ulysses S. Grant
- Rapid City: Statue #19: Rutherford B. Hayes
- Rapid City: Statue #20: James Garfield
- Rapid City: Statue #21: Chester A. Arthur
- Rapid City: Statue #22, 24: Grover Cleveland
- Rapid City: Statue #23: Benjamin Harrison
- Rapid City: Statue #25: William McKinley
- Rapid City: Statue #26: Teddy Roosevelt
- Rapid City: Statue #27: William Howard Taft
- Rapid City: Statue #28: Woodrow Wilson
- Rapid City: Statue #29: Warren Harding
- Rapid City: Statue #30: Calvin Coolidge
- Rapid City: Statue #31: Herbert Hoover
- Rapid City: Statue #32: Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Rapid City: Statue #33: Harry S Truman
- Rapid City: Statue #34: Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Rapid City: Statue #35: John F. Kennedy
- Rapid City: Statue #36: Lyndon B. Johnson
- Rapid City: Statue #37: Richard Nixon
- Rapid City: Statue #38: Gerald Ford
- Rapid City: Statue #39: Jimmy Carter
- Rapid City: Statue #40: Ronald Reagan
- Rapid City: Statue #41: George Bush
- Rapid City: Statue #42: Bill Clinton
- Rapid City: Statue #43: George W. Bush
- Rapid City: Statue #44: Barack Obama
- Rapid City: Storybook Island
- Rapid City: World's Largest Quarter-Pounder
- Redfield: Pheasant Statue at Pheasant Capital of the World
- Roslyn: International Vinegar Museum
- Scenic: Ghost Town Named Scenic
- Scenic: Pterodactyl Monument
- Shadehill: Airplane Wind Vane
- Shadehill: Hugh Glass Mauled by Bear Here
- Sioux Falls: Bank Robbed by John Dillinger
- Sioux Falls: Concrete Outline of USS South Dakota
- Sioux Falls: Golden Pig on Two Legs
- Sioux Falls: Large Cow
- Sioux Falls: McKinley: First President to Visit South Dakota
- Sioux Falls: Muffler Man: Mr. Bendo
- Sioux Falls: Potato Man
- Sioux Falls: Replica Statue of David
- Sioux Falls: Tornado Beam, Teddy Roosevelt Car
- Sisseton: Nicollet Tower: See Two Other States
- Stockholm: Buggy Museum
- Sturgis: Bear Butte
- Sturgis: Buffalo Chip Sign and Big Motorcycle Motor
- Sturgis: Large 44 Magnum
- Sturgis: Mailman Scalped by Indians Here
- Sturgis: Motorcycle Museum and Hall of Fame
- Sturgis: Statue of the Superfast Cyclist
- Tyndall: America's Oldest Eiffel Tower
- Vale: Flaming Biker with Chainsaw
- Vale: Muffler Man With Beer Mug
- Valley Springs: Stand on Three States: Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota
- Vermillion: Skull and Bones of Hero the Elephant
- Wall: 40-Foot-Tall Jackalope
- Wall: Peer into a Missile Silo
- Wall: Wall Drug Dinosaur
- Wall: Wall Drug Store
- Wall: Yard Full of Animal Sculptures
- Wasta: 27-Foot Tall Buffalo Bill
- Wasta: Armed Forces Museum
- Watertown: Cowboy Statue
- Webster: Shoe House, World's Largest Hairball
- Wessington Springs: Replica Shakespeare House
- White Lake: Rest Stop Tiny Church - Eastbound
- White Lake: Rest Stop Tiny Church - Westbound
- Wounded Knee: Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial
Gone But Not Forgotten
Closed and extinct places -- the classics and the quirky. A virtual revisit, even if it's just to milk them for one more chuckle...
- Brookings: Metal Sculptures Park
- Buffalo: Buffalo and Bison - Not the Same
- Custer: Black Hills Holy Land
- Custer: Flintstones Bedrock City
- Deadwood: Boondocks 1950s Retro Complex
- Deadwood: Chinese Opium Tunnel
- Deadwood: The Roo Ranch
- Kadoka: Badlands Petrified Gardens
- Lead: Presidents Park
- Mitchell: Happy Chef
- Mitchell: Hot Air Ballooning Museum
- Mitchell: Valtiroty Shiloh's Tabernacle
- Rapid City: 45-Foot-Tall Statue of Liberty
- Rapid City: America's Founding Fathers Exhibit
- Rapid City: Gas Station Taxidermy Museum
- Rapid City: Lawnmower Pile-Up
- Rapid City: Man Made From Tires
- Rapid City: Thunderhead Underground Falls
- Roscoe: Bernie Sanders Couch of the Future
- Sioux Falls: Badlands Pawn: 1 Million in Gold Bars
- Wall: Wild West Historical Wax Museum
- Worthing: Giant Pepsi Can
