Places callan726 Wants to Go

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

Otherworldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

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

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

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

A unique gallery chronicles the losers of American presidential history.

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

This Italianate Villa-style castle is pretty to look at, just keep off the private property.

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

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

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

Curious rock formations in a tiny Kansas state park.

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

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

A subterranean haunt where wine and homemade biscottis are always on the menu.

This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.

Two Ming Dynasty lion statues guard the entrance to the journalism school.

After miraculously surviving a giant flood, the 19th-century nut tree and its offspring are protected with their own tiny park.

The obelisk meant to mark the founding father's grave at Monticello is actually on the University of Missouri campus.

This "little gallery in the middle of nowhere" is housed in a 170-year-old horse barn in the Missouri Ozarks.

One of few surviving standpipe water towers in the U.S.

Famous church recognized for both its unique design and disciplined monks that live according to the Benedictine discipline.

This wooded grove of beautiful hand-built stone grottos is a hidden gem within a shuttered Franciscan monastery.