Bonanzaville USA in neighboring West Fargo is a sprawling outdoor village museum with more than 40 original 19th-century buildings moved from across the northern plains and reassembled on a single site. A one-room schoolhouse, a general store, a train depot, an old hotel, a church, a grain elevator, and several farmsteads give a clear picture of what settlement life on the Dakota prairie actually looked like.
The site also has extensive collections of vintage farm equipment — including some of the massive steam-powered threshers that worked the bonanza farms — and a number of period-furnished indoor exhibits. It is better than a first glance suggests: well-maintained, intelligently interpreted, and genuinely evocative of the agricultural world that made this part of the country what it is. Allow two to three hours. Open from May through October.