An impressive collection of farm equipment and other artifacts from life on the prairie.

This small piece of railroad history sits behind the parking lot of a chain grocery store.

A monument dedicated to a local softball team full of clowns.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

The ruins of this former mining boomtown once housed over 3,000 people. Now, the population is two.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

This is one really big nut.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

The quirky gift from West Berlin for the 1968 World's Fair still stands in Hemisfair Park.

This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.

Thousands of small machines line the shelves of this personal collection which definitely delivers on its name.

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

The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.

Ever wanted to can Spam?

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

This sprawling building built in 1890 was one of Minnesota’s earliest and largest mental health facilities.

Visitors to this museum will uncover a whimsical collection of marbles from across time.

"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"

These former Cold War launch sites have been preserved for tourists to see where the button might have been pushed.

The world's largest Holstein cow.