8 Places In North Dakota That’ll Make You Swear You’re On Another Planet

We’ve seen many photographs of North Dakota’s cities, landmarks, natural beauty, and places. With just the right atmosphere, one picture can look very different from another of the exact same place, sometimes almost as if they were taken in another world. These masterful photographers captured these places here in ND just right, and the photos look surreal.

1. Shadows of the badlands in Theodore Roosevelt National Park under the dark yet colorful sky creates an awesome effect here.

2. This may look like an alien city interior, but it's actually taken in the Legislative Hall in Bismarck.

3. Not quite a shot of a cloudy nebula light years away in the universe, but actually a shot of the northern lights that appear over Valley City.

4. Robot invasion? Nope - an interesting character made of tin out near Edgeley.

5. This long exposure nighttime shot of prairie grasses and plants in western North Dakota almost looks like a seabed at the bottom of a deep, dark ocean.

6. Can you guess where this was taken? It isn't Mars - this was taken on a foggy morning in Minot.

7. Sun dogs on a chilly morning near Fargo almost look like they outline a huge nearby planet that could be seen from another planet's glistening surface.

8. Possibly a shot taken on top of Buck Hill, or is it the dusty shot of some far away moon's surface?

Photography can capture North Dakota in so many ways. If you have any photographs you’d like to be featured on the Only In North Dakota page, please feel free to submit them.

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Leah

Leah moved to North Dakota when she was 12 years old and has traveled from the Red River Valley to the badlands and many places in between. She loves small-town life and currently enjoys living on a small farm in the ND prairie. She's always had a passion for writing and has participated in novel writing challenges such as NaNoWriMo multiple times. Her favorite part about this job is recognizing small businesses that deserve a boost and seeing the positive affect her articles can have on their traffic, especially in rural areas that might have otherwise gone overlooked.