A monument to the forgotten French explorers and their landmark expedition.

A relic of roadside lore and perhaps the first of its kind in North America.

The final resting place of the Hunkpapa Lakota leader Tatanka Iyotaka, commonly known by the English translation Sitting Bull.

This monument remembers one of the manliest men of the frontier who fought a grizzly before dragging himself 200 miles to safety.

The cliff and rock formations are made out of Sioux Quartzite.

Calidum et Deliciose Succosum!

Chef Lawrence West serves up Indian tacos, wojapi, and other Lakota dishes at the brick-and-mortar incarnation of his popular food truck.

An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

The pharmacy's retro ice cream mixer is one of the last of its kind.

The neighborhood surrounding the memorial was the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic in Louisiana.

In 1857, the Mardi Gras parade tradition began at this intersection.

A building that was once a general store, a speakeasy, and a newspaper office now holds a small gallery filled with New Orleans photography.

A unique post-modern public space in the middle of the Warehouse District in New Orleans.

After the oysters have been shucked, and the restaurant's been shuttered, the terrazzo sidewalk from the 1940s is all that remains.

This 45-story tall abandoned skyscraper is the third tallest building in New Orleans and Lousiana.

A serene but haunting memorial to protective wetland lost, the absence of which directly damaged the Lower 9th Ward following Hurricane Katrina.