Badlands National Park is a vast wilderness of jagged buttes ... Center on the east side of the park is the main spot for information in the North Unit. The building also has a fossil preparation lab ...

It leads to a brown sheet-metal building, the Cuny Table Café ... These same haunting buttes draw 900,000 people a year to Badlands National Park, the heart of the landscape.

With 650 residents, a jackalope statue, a 76,000-square-foot drugstore-museum, this tiny South Dakota town is also a gateway to a national park and forest.