Places Beth1116 Wants to Go

This Great Plains museum pays tribute to both the prosperity and tragedy of the North American fur trade.

America's largest man-made forest was planted in an effort to bring back the past.

An Englishman loses his scalp to a Cheyenne warrior and lives to donate it to a library.

This was the first homestead registered after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law.

A rancher expanding a natural spring for his cattle came up with bones – lots and lots of them.

When an ancient supervolcano erupted, some of Nebraska's prehistoric animals were forever preserved in ash.

The largest collection of historical roller skates in the world.

Underneath downtown Lincoln resides a network of caves that was also the city's first brewery.

A brick-paved former section of the historic coast-to-coast highway.

America's smallest town is run by its single citizen/mayor/librarian/bartender.

Bizarre and inspired combination store selling only two items: tires and bibles.

The history of whiskey and all of its boozy glory, from Colonial days to modern American cocktail culture.

This abandoned cemetery has a dark past of bodies buried over bodies.

An equine tribute in a charming Southern city that calls itself "The Horse Capital of the World."

This small museum is kept in a house that was integral to the genesis of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Origin of the blue-skinned Fugates of eastern Kentucky.

Rabbit Hash is a heaping slice of Americana from another era, with a very peculiar origin behind its unusual name.

Visitors to this arboretum are greeted by three smiling giants crafted from sustainable materials.

The Trappist monk, prophet-poet, and rebel never really got to live out the eremitic life he was seeking.

One tree's homage to soles past and present.

This turn of the century jail once held Charles Manson.

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

A curious sculpture garden and museum in Cochrane, Wisconsin.

This punny mirror of another Wisconsin attraction is exactly what it sounds like.