Badlands National Park, South Dakota

A badlands (also badland) is/are a type of dry terrain where softer sedimentary rocks and clay-rich soils have been extensively eroded by wind and water.[Ref Wikipedia]

Badlands National Park is a national park in southwestern South Dakota that protects 242,756 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires blended with the largest undisturbed mixed grass prairie in the United States. [Ref: Wikipedia]

Popcorn rock formations

Ridges at sunset.

Sunset at the Pinnacle Point

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The Corn Palace, Mitchell, South Dakota

The Corn Palace at Mitchel, South Dakota, claims to be The World's Only Corn Palace. It is a multipurpose building decorated with crop art.

A corny welcome to the world's only corn palace.

 The murals are all made of corn.



The building has a sports arena inside.

Sculpture explaining numerous uses of corn in American life.

Another view for The Corn Palace.

This is how the murals are made.