Dearborn, Michigan
Dymaxion House
The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.
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Dearborn, Michigan
The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.
Omaha, Nebraska
A miniature baseball stadium honoring Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium, home of the College World Series from 1950-2010.
South Bend, Indiana
This museum collects over a century of automobile history including the iconic car from The Muppet Movie.
Notre Dame, Indiana
The Golden Dome is the most recognized building on the beautiful campus of the University of Notre Dame
Niles, Michigan
A cabinet of funerary art and death culture hidden inside an oddities shop.
Walcott, Iowa
The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.
Weston, Missouri
A vineyard devoted entirely to an unexplored flavor frontier.
Weston, Missouri
The oldest bar in Missouri is hidden within a limestone brewery cellar more than 50 feet underground.
Excelsior Springs, Missouri
This art deco masterpiece was once a miracle spring mecca but is now simply a government office building.
Kearney, Missouri
One of America's first planned communities is preserved in a state park.
Eureka, Missouri
This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.
Strong City, Kansas
A Kansas nature preserve protecting the plants and animals that once stretched across central North America.
Kansas City, Missouri
A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.
Kansas City, Missouri
Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.
Springfield, Illinois
This diner serves Route 66 nostalgia and what it claims is the 'original' hot dog on a stick.
Carbondale, Illinois
In the loving memory of a tragically deceased role-player this Illinois park is decked out with both dungeons and dragons.
Fayetteville, West Virginia
One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.
Thurmond, West Virginia
Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.
Fayetteville, West Virginia
Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.
Fayetteville, West Virginia
An abandoned coal mine reached by a steep hike.
Danese, West Virginia
This functioning mill was built in the 1970s using parts from several other West Virginia mills.
Ansted, West Virginia
The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.
Gauley Bridge, West Virginia
The tallest waterfall in West Virginia.
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.