Hays, Kansas
The Original Boot Hill Cemetery
The first graveyard named "Boot Hill" was established in Hays, Kansas, years before better known cemeteries with the same name.
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Hays, Kansas
The first graveyard named "Boot Hill" was established in Hays, Kansas, years before better known cemeteries with the same name.
Fort Bridger, Wyoming
Named for a prominent scout and explorer, this Wyoming state park encompasses a replica of an 1840s trading post, a 19th-century Army outpost, and early 20th-century automobile lodgings.
Vernal, Utah
Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.
Jensen, Utah
This maintained cabin is where Josie Morris, an occasional associate of Butch Cassidy, lived out the last 50 years of her life by herself.
Vernal, Utah
A unique collection of drawings that represent Fremont Native American culture.
Tuttle, North Dakota
Only place outside China and India where two overhead DC power lines cross.
Lyons, Kansas
This rural roadside cross marks the farthest point of Coronado's expedition, and the place where the Catholic faith first came to America.
Garden City, Kansas
The 55-pound trichobezoar was removed from the stomach of a cow.
Oakley, Kansas
Home of mutant livestock.
Ransom, Kansas
This 100-foot tall bluff located in the western plains of Kansas overlooks a massive reservoir.
Red Cloud, Nebraska
Over 600 acres of idyllic open grassland honor Nebraska’s georgic storyteller.
Smith Center, Kansas
This early pioneer landmark is one of the oldest buildings in this part of Kansas and one of the few Dutch mills ever built in the state.
Kensington, Kansas
See the home and the range on which "Home on the Range" was arranged.
Minden, Nebraska
This replica small town lets visitors take a stroll through the story of progress in the U.S. via thousands of Americana artifacts.
Kimball, South Dakota
An impressive collection of farm equipment and other artifacts from life on the prairie.
Amarillo, Texas
These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.
Turkey, Texas
A small museum dedicated to the king of Western swing.
Quitaque, Texas
Welcome to a starkly beautiful sanctuary where the buffalo roam.
Lubbock, Texas
This Texas windmill field celebrates the power and majesty of the very winds that blow.
Ransom Canyon, Texas
A wacky, UFO-shaped house in a suburban neighborhood.
Royal, Nebraska
When an ancient supervolcano erupted, some of Nebraska's prehistoric animals were forever preserved in ash.
Elgin, Nebraska
More than 150 working bells from churches and one-room-schoolhouses across the Great Plains are assembled in one man's yard.
Holbrook, Arizona
Petroglyphs, bird watching, and a 100-year-old Ranch in one location.
Tucson, Arizona
This scrap yard doubles as a naive art gallery full of found art and farm animals.