Places bentyner Wants to Go

This art deco masterpiece was once a miracle spring mecca but is now simply a government office building.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

The face of the famed flier in a hillside in her hometown.

This massive marble memorial was built bit by bit either out of devotion or spite, but at the expense of the surrounding town.

A giant pair of thick black glasses mark the tragic demise of a trio of rock and roll legends.

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

A lifetime's accumulation of bric-a-brac and kitsch.

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

A four story, football field-sized, nine-grotto creation made of shells, minerals, and rare stones.

A unique gallery chronicles the losers of American presidential history.

The “American Gothic" artist's largest works hang in an Iowa State University library.

Beating out all other concrete competitors, this massive garden feature's pointy hat has earned it a world record.

A college in rural Kansas founded to prepare the country for an impending World War III.

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

The World's Largest Bull.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

Curious rock formations in a tiny Kansas state park.

The man who was president for only one day and spent most of it asleep.

A Kansas grassroots sculptor decorates the local roadways with his sculptures made from found objects.

An eclectic assortment of medieval architecture in a small Iowa town.

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

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

Lone survivor from Custer's Last Stand forever preserved.

A cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.