Lucas, Kansas
Jim Dickerman's Open Range Zoo
A Kansas grassroots sculptor decorates the local roadways with his sculptures made from found objects.
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Lucas, Kansas
A Kansas grassroots sculptor decorates the local roadways with his sculptures made from found objects.
Camdenton, Missouri
European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.
Clinton, Missouri
This small town bank is very aware of its name thank you very much.
Edgerton, Kansas
Built in 1869, this one-room rural schoolhouse welcomes visitors to travel back to 1904 school day.
Kearney, Missouri
One of America's first planned communities is preserved in a state park.
Excelsior Springs, Missouri
This art deco masterpiece was once a miracle spring mecca but is now simply a government office building.
Kansas City, Missouri
The golden age of flight captured in a downtown airport.
Kansas City, Missouri
This classic Kansas City song reference is the place for anyone who wants to stand at the corner of 12th Street and Vine.
Kansas City, Missouri
Undone by Prohibition, this abandoned brewery-turned-flour mill is now ready for its third act.
Kansas City, Missouri
A magnificent church designed by world-renowned architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.
Chanute, Kansas
A Google software engineer's Easter egg led to what may be the world's most unusual saved screenshot.
Neodesha, Kansas
This replica oil derrick stands where a tiny Kansas town struck big in 1852, kicking off America's biggest oil boom.
Newton, Kansas
This vivid painted ceramic sculpture evokes the expansiveness of the prairie sky.
Topeka, Kansas
Topeka has its own great wall, and it's covered in colorful images from the city's history.
McLouth, Kansas
A rock that was too big to move, so the town just paved around it.
Harrison, Nebraska
Otherworldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.
Harrison, Nebraska
Site of the 1879 Cheyenne Outbreak and the site where famed Sioux chief Crazy Horse met his fate.
Chadron, Nebraska
America's largest man-made forest was planted in an effort to bring back the past.
Gibbon, Nebraska
For one month, the fields and skies of Gibbon, Nebraska, come alive with one of the largest gatherings of sandhill cranes in North America.
Beatrice, Nebraska
This was the first homestead registered after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law.
Sioux City, Iowa
America's first National Historic Landmark is a 100-foot tall obelisk and gravesite dedicated to the only casualty of the Lewis & Clark Expedition.
Omaha, Nebraska
A brick-paved former section of the historic coast-to-coast highway.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
These massive mitts are made of 30 tons of devotional bronze.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
A half-size replica of the World Trade Center towers above Tulsa.