Beautiful downtown Scenic, South Dakota. Perhaps it's few trees and surrounding farmable fields were a sort of oasis on the west side of the badlands? The 2010 census listed 10 residents, and there was one gift store with it's brave Open flag fluttering the day we were there. Apparently the elderly lady who owned the town found it increasingly hard to maintain, so several years ago she listed the town and 30-some acres around it for sale for $799,000. It made the national news, along with the inevitable scoffing. But lo and behold, she had a taker: in August 2011 a Philippines-based church called Iglesia ni Cristo (Church of Christ) bought the property.
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