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Sturgis, SD
Historic and custom motorcycles document the machines and personalities behind the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. The collection gives permanent form to a gathering that transforms this small Black Hills city into one of America's largest motorcycle spectacles each year.
Deadwood, SD
A massive bronze tableau depicts Lakota riders driving a herd of bison over a cliff, surrounded by interpretation of the animal's importance to Plains cultures. The installation combines monumental sculpture with a story about the near-destruction of North America's bison herds.
Deadwood, SD
Guided and self-guided tours occupy rooms used by one of Deadwood's former brothels and interpret more than a century of tolerated prostitution in the town. The industry's abrupt end after a 1980 federal raid gives the preserved rooms an unusually recent connection to Deadwood's outlaw reputation.
Hot Springs, SD
More than 60 mammoths and many other Ice Age animals have been uncovered in an ancient sinkhole preserved inside a working research facility. Visitors walk around the active bone bed rather than seeing fossils removed into a conventional display case.
Sioux Falls, SD
A concrete outline marks the approximate dimensions of the World War II battleship USS South Dakota, with parts of the actual ship and a museum placed inside the footprint. The ground-level reconstruction communicates the scale of a vessel that would otherwise be impossible to bring inland.
Fort Pierre, SD
A hill above Fort Pierre marks where the La Vérendrye expedition buried a lead plate in 1743 to claim the region for France. Schoolchildren found the plate in 1913, turning an otherwise ordinary bluff into physical evidence of an eighteenth-century imperial expedition.
Wounded Knee, SD
The cemetery and memorial overlook the site where U.S. troops killed hundreds of Lakota people on December 29, 1890. This is a sacred memorial landscape rather than a conventional attraction; visit quietly, follow local guidance and treat graves and memorial objects with respect.
