smarter travel.com Best Hidden Destination Within The United States: North Dakota "My newest 'find' is North Dakota, which I discovered last fall. Wide open spaces, very few people, and lots of things to do, too, [like] Wild West towns and old Norwegian pioneer settlements, [Theodore] Roosevelt National Park and the northern Badlands, [and] The Lewis and Clark Trail of forts and museums along the Missouri River. [Plus, there's a] surprisingly sophisticated food and bar scene in Bismarck."