7 Strangest Attractions In South Dakota

There’s just some things that you can’t look away from after a first glance. These bizarre variety of things in South Dakota are the kind that just leaves you scratching your head and maybe weirding you out a bit. From weird roadside attractions to almost creepy structures, you wouldn’t soon forget them if you saw them.

This massive array of bikes in Pringle, South Dakota is a deliberate sculpture. At a first glance it may look a bit overwhelming.

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The rough looking spires of this castle-like structure come from what is basically fossilized prehistoric wood. Strange to see, but fascinating to learn about.

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Talk about some nostalgia! It’s a bit unusual to see these characters and the buildings from their animated world in the physical world, but it exists in Custer, South Dakota.

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These are just the start of the many unusual and sometimes downright creepy sculptures at the Porter Sculpture Park in Montrose, South Dakota.

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Even from the outside, the Cosmos Mystery Area might give you a bit of a headache, but when you step foot inside the buildings you’ll really get dizzy - gravity seems completely out of whack

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This Ranch Store greets you with a giant prairie dog out front and a massive skeleton bull on the roof, a combination that definitely doesn’t exist anywhere else.

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A lot of features at Wall Drug are unusual, sometimes borderline nightmare fuel.

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Can you think of any other places in The Mount Rushmore State that are a bit out of the ordinary? Some of these are roadside attractions that we have featured on a previous post that you can see here. Roadside attractions are in a category of their own type of strange and uniqueness, especially in South Dakota, and you have to stop by them and check them out.