Places alwaysheartshapedboxes Wants to Go

See 150 million-year-old dinosaur tracks and bones dating back to the Jurassic period.

See a full-scale whale skeleton and experience the captivating culture of Alaska’s Native people at this heritage center in east Anchorage.

Pay homage to a preeminent matriarch, and the native Dena’ina people, at this sculpture installation in Anchorage.

Visit the secret grave of a legendary privateer who faked his own death.

A small-town limestone memorial to a local cartoonist and to Porky Pig, his most famous subject.

A small museum celebrating the work of a Mississippi artist who had a unique connection with the natural world.

A museum celebrating a couple who loved to travel the world and to bring its treasures back to Montezuma, Kansas.

Discover the story of a man, a dog, and a plan to turn a decommissioned Atlas F Missile Base into an underground resort.

The only airport with a people mover system designed by Walt Disney Imagineering.

This rural water utility building houses a tribute to one of the greatest stars of the silent film era.

Don't pass Gas, stop and enjoy it.

This historical marker is all that remains of Octagon City, Kansas, a failed vegetarian utopia.

Meet Rita the Rock Planter, one of Danish sculptor Thomas Dambo's enormous wooden trolls.

Soak in the soul of Kansas City at the oldest continually-operating jazz club in the country.

Savor the famous tempura-fried pork tenderloin sandwich at this long-standing Kansas City food counter.

The Milburn-Price Culture Museum in Vega offers a brand-name oversized cultural attraction.

The largest underground pedestrian tunnel system in the U.S. mostly caters to the people working in the offices above, but provides a great, air-conditioned way to traverse the city.

This historic Ellinwood hotel is also home to underground tunnels that were a popular haunt during Prohibition.

This unfinished tribute to a hometown hero and early baseball great is now an abandoned roadside attraction.

This depiction of the earth mother welcomes new life into Aurora Highlands.

Before he was the "Big Train," baseball's greatest pitcher was the original "Humboldt Thunderbolt."

The van that carried William Least-Heat Moon through the journey documented in the book 'Blue Highways' sits in the Mizzou archeological museum's storage.

See the home and the range on which "Home on the Range" was arranged.

A park to honor all U.S. Armed Forces veterans, and Emporia's status as the founding city of Veterans Day.