One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

This friendly fellow was built to honor an advancement in mineral processing.

This institution celebrates the happy accidents of uncommon sticktoitiveness.

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

A larger-than-life version of the hat beloved by hunters, outdoorsmen, and Holden Caulfield.

You have to love a museum with a truly dedicated focus. A focus on Superman, for example.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

Step back in time at this 1950s display home, built to showcase once cutting-edge electric amenities.

A rainbow-colored house promotes LGBTQ rights across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church.

A diverse, expansive nature preserve in northeastern Kansas.

A Kansas nature preserve protecting the plants and animals that once stretched across central North America.

This vivid painted ceramic sculpture evokes the expansiveness of the prairie sky.

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

A museum where visitors can learn about greyhounds and (more importantly) pet them.

A landscape of massive spherical boulders are the main attraction in this Kansas State Park.

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

This 41,000-acre wetland complex is the largest marsh in the interior of the United States.

The world’s largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian aircraft got its start in a poultry building.

Metal sculpture folk art lining the Kansas Highway.