The Gem Hunt
America decides what makes the map.
Every state has a spot the algorithms miss — the one locals send strangers to. Name it. Vote on the finalists. The winners get built into Roamward, the scenic road-trip app that proves you actually went. No download required to play.
Nominate
What does North Dakota do better than anywhere?
One hidden gem — a place a chatbot would never know. The most-named spots become finalists, and the crowd votes the winner into Roamward.
Vote
North Dakota gems, most-loved first
- 1Enchanted HighwayA 32-mile back road from Gladstone to Regent lined with the world's largest scrap-metal sculptures — giant grasshoppers, tin families, leaping deer — all built by one local artist on the open prairie.
- 2Salem SueThe world's largest Holstein cow, 38 feet of fiberglass on a hilltop above New Salem, visible for miles along I-94 in the central part of the state.
- 3W'eel TurtleA giant turtle built from over 2,000 painted tire rims in tiny Dunseith, near the Canadian border on the way to the International Peace Garden.
- 4National Buffalo MuseumA museum devoted entirely to the American bison in Jamestown, with a live herd grazing outside beneath the world's largest buffalo statue, right off I-94.
- 5Pembina GorgeA rare forested river canyon in the far northeast that surprises everyone expecting flat prairie — great for a leg-stretch, an overlook, and fall color along the Pembina River.
- 6Mystical HorizonsA 21st-century Stonehenge of pink granite slabs perched on a ridge above the farmland near Bottineau, with sighting tubes for the solstices, equinox, and the North Star — a quiet, free detour.
- 7Paul Broste Rock MuseumA stone building that looks like a small prairie castle in tiny Parshall, packed with one rockhound's lifetime collection of polished spheres, minerals, and gemstones — call ahead for hours.
- 8White ButteThe highest point in North Dakota, a chalky badlands rise in remote Slope County reached by an easy 3.5-mile out-and-back across ranch land kept open by the owners — bring cash for the donation box.
- 9Whitestone Hill State Historic SiteA windswept, sobering battlefield southeast of Kulm where monuments and a WPA-era shelter mark one of the deadliest clashes of the Dakota wars — a contemplative stop in the empty prairie.
- 10Geographical Center of North America MonumentA 21-foot stone cairn in Rugby marking the surveyed center of the whole continent, sitting cheerfully beside a fitness center and a Mexican restaurant right on US Highway 2.
Not your state’s turn yet?
Want Roamward to map North Dakota next?
Add your vote — the loudest state gets mapped first.
How it works
Nominate
Drop the most underrated spot in your state — the gem an itinerary generator would never surface.
The crowd ranks it
Name a place someone already nominated and it rises. The most-loved gems become the state’s finalists.
Vote the winner in
Finalists go to a public vote. Winners get built into Roamward — credited to the people who found them.
Go verify it
Drive it, GPS-verify the stop, earn the badge, and share the map that proves you were first.
Don’t miss the winners
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