A concrete pyramid built to stop nuclear missiles, a bar that claimed the center of North America, a lake that came to town, a turtle made of car wheels and a 3,591-pound hamburger flipped with a crane: ten more North Dakota towns.

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Chapters
0:00 A pyramid in a wheat field
0:29 Nekoma: the prairie pyramid
4:38 Robinson & Center: who owns the middle?
7:44 Minnewaukan: the lake came to town
10:17 Wishek: 100 years of free sauerkraut
12:03 New Town: the name nobody voted on
14:46 Dunseith: a turtle made of wheels
16:31 Amidon: a county seat of about 20
17:50 Portal: golf across a border
18:33 Rutland: the burger flipped by crane
20:11 Watch Part 1

Sources: U.S. Army SMDC & Redstone Arsenal histories; Grand Forks Herald; Dickinson Press; AP; Minot Daily News; Univ. at Buffalo; NASA Earth Observatory; U.S. Senate releases; MPR News; State Historical Society of N.D.; Prairie Public Dakota Datebook; City of Wishek; KFYR-TV; N.D. Governor’s Office; Slope County; N.D. Tourism; Roadside America; FARM SHOW.

CC-licensed images (cropped/scaled/animated and labelled; adaptations keep the same licence):
• Andrew Filer, CC BY-SA 2.0: Amidon, North Dakota 2 commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=27151088; Churchs Ferry, North Dakota 5-23-2008 commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=35196743; Dunseith, North Dakota commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=120658085; Grain Elevator in Nekoma, North Dakota 7-19-2009 commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=37335910; Minnewaukan, North Dakota - 6182853888 commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=119689962; Minnewaukan, North Dakota commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=9677999; Post office in New Town, North Dakota 10-17-2008 commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=35105465; Robinson, North Dakota 6-13-2008 commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=35288111; Slope County Courthouse commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=6906004; Wishek, North Dakota - 3501897655 commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=163063155; Wishek, North Dakota - 3502714696 commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=163063164; Wishek, North Dakota commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=24611028
• Chitrapa, CC BY-SA 3.0: Rugby North Dakota commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=15937890
• David Becker, CC BY 2.0: Shoreline of Lake Sakakawea at Fort Stevenson State Park, North Dakota (5006247811) commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=12350380
• David Wilson, CC BY 2.0: 20210810 19 Geographic Center of North America, Rugby, North Dakota (52133210870) commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=144881251
• Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0: Entrance to the International Peace Garden, North Dakota-Manitoba Border (43973807281) commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=113574309
• Kevin Henry, Atomic Aerials (Kebbins00), CC BY-SA 4.0: Safeguard MSR pyramid and Spartan missile silos - photographer Kevin Henry - Atomic Aerials commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=169426601
• M. Readey, CC BY-SA 3.0: View of the Four Bears Bridge, Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=18059573
• Naawada2016, CC BY-SA 4.0: The old bridge seen from Crow Flies High view point commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=67236957
• Royalbroil, CC BY-SA 3.0: Rugby North Dakota Downtown commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=31803494
• Ryan Crierie, CC BY 2.0: Spartan missile dual launch (SC 662546, 11 Jan 71) commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=29102273
• Salix thuja, CC BY-SA 4.0: Grain Elevator Rutland, North Dakota commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=37517331; Main Street Rutland, North dakota commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=37517333; World's Largest Hamburger Rutland, North Dakota commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=37517329
• Skye Marthaler, CC BY-SA 4.0: White Butte, North Dakota commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=77444721
• Terry Robinson, CC BY-SA 2.0: “Weel the turtle” flickr.com/photos/suburbanadventure/43188581895
• Wbaron, CC BY-SA 3.0: Portal ND border station commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=47474663

Public domain: HAER/Library of Congress; U.S. Army; NASA Earth Observatory/USGS Landsat (Jesse Allen); NASA; USGS maps; USDA/USGS aerials (The National Map); FEMA; National Archives; NPS; Interior Dept.; USDA Forest Service; USACE; Seattle Municipal Archives; Tichnor Bros. postcards (Boston Public Library). CC0: Troy Larson & Terry Hinnen. Maps: U.S. Census Bureau, Natural Earth.

Music: “Back in the Saddle” (Dan Lebo Lebowitz, Tone Seeker) and “Country Sky” (Telecasted), YouTube Audio Library; original score by Globe Trekking.
The 3D radar sequence, diagrams and illustrations are labelled on screen and are not photographs. Narration voice is AI-generated.