Woonsocket is known as The Town with the Beautiful Lake. Near the shore of Lake Herman, Prairie Village includes the original townsite of Herman, Dakota Territory. The abundant water flow of Spearfish Creek favored the establishment of a Federal Fish Hatchery in 1898. The Flaming Fountain on South Dakota State Capitol Lake is fed by an artesian well with natural gas content so high that it can be lit. The Crystal Springs Ranch rodeo arena in Clear Lake was built on a drained duck pond.
Faith is famous to paleontologists.
The Silent Guide Monument in Philip was built in the late 1800s by a sheepherder to mark a waterhole that never went dry. Rising 1400 feet above the surrounding prairie near Sturgis, and standing all by itself, Bear Butte isn't hard to find. The Anne Hathaway Cottage at Wessington Springs is the only structure in the Midwest US that features a thatched roof. Rivers were the highways in settling the western territory. Henry Holland built an English-style mill in Milbank in 1886, three years before South Dakota became a state.