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

This once rural mansion now sits in the heart of the city.

A brick-paved former section of the historic coast-to-coast highway.

America's smallest town is run by its single citizen/mayor/librarian/bartender.

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.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

A fur trade museum in western Nebraska stands on the reconstructed footprint of a 19th-century trading post.

From this scenic rockface, you can still see the paths Western pioneers followed.

A cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

After a local English teacher visited Stratford-upon-Avon, she was inspired to create a garden and home in the Bard's honor.

The oldest extant wooden jail in South Dakota and possibly the United States. 

Despite monuments in other locations, this spot in a South Dakota field is recognized by the U.S. National Geodetic Survey as the center of the 50 states.

Seth Bullock, the sheriff of Deadwood, built this town immediately after Teddy Roosevelt’s death in 1919.

One of the first intercontinental ballistic missile sites in the United States.

Dedicated to the history of the 1,000 nuclear missiles that once covered the Great Plains.

One of the world's most definitive collections of musical instruments, spanning all cultures and historical periods.

Yes, this monument is aware that it is about 20 miles away from the actual center of the United States.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.