Discover 4 hidden attractions, cool sights, and unusual things to do in Lead (United States). Don't miss out on these must-see attractions: Sanford Lab Homestake Visitor Center, Black Hills Mining Museum, and Old Finnish Lutheran Church. Also, be sure to include Large Underground Xenon experiment in your itinerary.
Below, you can find the list of the most amazing places you should visit in Lead (South Dakota).
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Sanford Lab Homestake Visitor Center
Top attraction, Visitor center, Science museum, View point, Museum
Address: 160 Main Street, 57754 Lead
Black Hills Mining Museum
Specialty museum, History museum, Museum
Address: 323 W Main St, 57754-1604 Lead
Old Finnish Lutheran Church
Old Finnish Lutheran Church is a historic church in Sinking Gardens on E. Main Street in Lead, South Dakota. It was built in 1907 and was added to the National Register in 1985.
It was built in 1891 by John Niemi and John Saari. One of the church's members painted "an unusual altar painting" during 1905–1907.
It was moved in 1963 across the street to its current location, the Sinking Gardens, an area of subsidence facing onto Lead's Main Street.[1]
Large Underground Xenon experiment
The Large Underground Xenon experiment aimed to directly detect weakly interacting massive particle dark matter interactions with ordinary matter on Earth. Despite the wealth of evidence supporting the existence of non-baryonic dark matter in the Universe, dark matter particles in our galaxy have never been directly detected in an experiment. LUX utilized a 370 kg liquid xenon detection mass in a time-projection chamber to identify individual particle interactions, searching for faint dark matter interactions with unprecedented sensitivity.
The LUX experiment, which cost approximately $10 million to build, was located 1,510 m (4,950 ft) underground at the Sanford Underground Laboratory (SURF, formerly the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory, or DUSEL) in the Homestake Mine (South Dakota) in Lead, South Dakota. The detector was located in the Davis campus, former site of the Nobel Prize-winning Homestake neutrino experiment led by Raymond Davis. It was operated underground to reduce the background noise signal caused by high-energy cosmic rays at the Earth's surface.
The detector was decommissioned in 2016 and is now on display at the Sanford Lab Homestake Visitor Center.[2]