South Dakota has two: the Corn Palace and Wall Drug

by Jack , Wednesday, March 11, 2026, 14:54 (138 days ago) @ Jay
edited by Jack, Wednesday, March 11, 2026, 15:09

I might empasize that it's "The World's Only Corn Palace". Yes, it really is made of corn. Among other things, inside there is a full basketball court where they used to hold the South Dakota high school tournament finals.

Wall Drug became famous because of billboards hundreds of miles in either direction, as a place to stop in the middle of nowhere, otherwise known as the Badlands. "You are only 100 miles from Wall Drug". So out of a combination of curiosity and boredom after miles and miles of nothing interesting out the window, people stopped at Wall Drug.