Van Buren, Missouri
Big Spring
Often referred to as the largest spring in America.
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Van Buren, Missouri
Often referred to as the largest spring in America.
Dora, Missouri
A version of this picturesque mill has existed since the 1800s.
St. Louis, Missouri
The Old Courthouse takes visitors on a captivating trip through St. Louis' timeline.
St. Louis, Missouri
Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.
Ellington, Missouri
One of the deepest springs in Missouri.
University City, Missouri
University City's quirkiest resident lives in a park named after its first.
Saint James, Missouri
Over 600 vacuum cleaners stack the shelves of what may be the cleanest museum in America.
Moab, Utah
This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.
Duchesne County, Utah
The highest peak in Utah is the hardest to reach, but only if explorers choose the hard way.
Roswell, New Mexico
Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.
Roswell, New Mexico
A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.
Abiquiu, New Mexico
Natural sonic phenomenon comes with a grisly legend of murder and blood.
Farmington, New Mexico
Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.
Bloomfield, New Mexico
The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.
Beatrice, Nebraska
This was the first homestead registered after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law.
Lindsborg, Kansas
Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.
Minneapolis, Kansas
A landscape of massive spherical boulders are the main attraction in this Kansas State Park.
Brookville, Kansas
Curious rock formations in a tiny Kansas state park.
Regent, North Dakota
One man's quest to save his town with a trail of record-breaking sculptures.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.
Catoosa, Oklahoma
Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.
Chelsea, Oklahoma
This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.