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A museum documents the development of the invention that tamed the Wild West.

A tiny racehorse graveyard in the middle of a quiet Kansas City suburb.

Once an ancient sea, this landscape of rocky ravines is filled with the fossils of ancient marine life.

A unique blue and yellow phone booth in America's "Little Sweden."

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

Enjoy a tour of oddities and makeshift monsters at this souvenir store with an offbeat sense of humor.

This lesser-known geographic marker was the reference point for all surveys of the continent for 75 years.

Topeka has its own great wall, and it's covered in colorful images from the city's history.

This sacred space and gathering spot for the Wyandot Nation has been the surrounded by controversy and confusion.

This artsy public restroom is shaped like a giant john.

A cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.

This Wild West attraction is probably more fiction than history, but that doesn't mean it's not awesome.

Stories of sightless fish and ghostly cowboys are only a fraction of the legends surrounding this Kansas sinkhole.

See the motorcycles that launched the stuntman to fame and the gear that saved his life.

A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.

A whimsical monument marks the highest point in Kansas, not that you could tell by the looks of it.

The first home of the doomed aviator Amelia Earhart.

Why settle for barbecue chips when you can get actual barbecue?

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

A mysterious and terrifying public art goblin seemingly meant to inspire local legend.

A house turned museum is the real-life "home" of the fictional main character of The Wizard of Oz.

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

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.