Pioneer Auto - Murdo, South Dakota

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So Pawan saw a sign for this along the highway and wanted to check it out. We were trying really hard to end the long day of traveling somewhere close to Minneapolis, but had enjoyed so much of the quirky stops in South Dakota that we just had to stop there. To say this place was quirky was an understatement though. The guy not only had a large collection of classic cars (including a General Lee car built by the same company that made the original for the TV series), but much more. We saw old tractors, rocks from around the world, old game machines, motorcycles (he had one of Elvis' motor cycles)...and on and on.

He had so much stuff that he even built an old style town where each specialty building had everything you would have found back in the 1900 era...like a schoolhouse, and old dentist's office and even an old bar! This place definitely hit the bar for strange place to visit on a road trip. And, well, come on, it's not like there were a lot more other things for us to still see in South Dakota!