Cisco, Utah
Home of the Brave
Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.
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Cisco, Utah
Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.
Corinne, Utah
An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.
Moab, Utah
A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.
Springdale, Utah
The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.
Vandalia, Illinois
Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.
Casey, Illinois
The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.
Chicago, Illinois
The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.
Alexandria, Indiana
Covered in tens of thousands of coats of paint, this Indiana attraction holds a world record all its own.
Sappington, Missouri
Giant works of art interspersed throughout meadows and woodlands offer a new discovery at every turn.
Carthage, Missouri
An adorably sweet display of sculpted Precious Moments figurines.
St. Louis, Missouri
The Magic House provides a beautiful and creative environment for curious youngsters to get their knowledge on.
St. Louis, Missouri
A big museum full of little worlds.
Kansas City, Missouri
The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.
Springfield, Missouri
The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.
Sullivan, Missouri
400 million-year old limestone caverns nestled in the Ozarks served as shelter and a hideout for cultures throughout North American history.
St. Joseph, Missouri
The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.
St. Louis, Missouri
Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.
Manistique, Michigan
This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.
New Castle, Indiana
Indiana's shrine to the sport that has become a hallmark of their culture.
East Chicago, Indiana
This old steel industry company town has a tradition of parking cars on the sidewalk so people can walk in the narrow streets.
Oakley, Kansas
A local shop filled with handcrafted art and funky home furnishings, vintage, and antiques.
Lindsborg, Kansas
A unique blue and yellow phone booth in America's "Little Sweden."
Meade, Kansas
This Wild West attraction is probably more fiction than history, but that doesn't mean it's not awesome.
Liberal, Kansas
A house turned museum is the real-life "home" of the fictional main character of The Wizard of Oz.