Places adamU Wants to Go

A lesser-known part of the Kinsey Institute is this impressive collection of art, artifacts, and material culture related to human sexuality.

This library and museum is dedicated to the life and literature of the Indianapolis native author.

One man's vision and a labor of love of many.

A turn-of-the-century architectural marvel built on healing mineral springs and salt licks.

More than 150 working bells from churches and one-room-schoolhouses across the Great Plains are assembled in one man's yard.

After sitting abandoned for decades, this historic mine is now the only publicly accessible chalk room and pillar mine in North America.

When an ancient supervolcano erupted, some of Nebraska's prehistoric animals were forever preserved in ash.

Underneath downtown Lincoln resides a network of caves that was also the city's first brewery.

An idle pastime becomes a record holder in Boys Town, Nebraska.

Otherworldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

Once an ancient sea, this landscape of rocky ravines is filled with the fossils of ancient marine life.

This lesser-known geographic marker was the reference point for all surveys of the continent for 75 years.

This quaint museum lets you take a ride on its antique carousels.

These otherworldly limestone formations jut out from the Kansas prairie.

The first "Hut" was actually a small brick building.

A whimsical monument marks the highest point in Kansas, not that you could tell by the looks of it.

Why settle for barbecue chips when you can get actual barbecue?

Self-built house and sculpture park where the creator can still be seen in a glass coffin.

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

One of the Eight Wonders of Kansas and the first official National Natural Monument these stark formations look like nature's Stonehenge.