Places Ckorear512 Wants to Go

Most comprehensive museum in America devoted to one ethnic group.

Piled high inside this warehouse and coffee shop are salvaged goods that span every corner of the globe.

This long unused shot tower on the Mississippi remains a point of pride for a small city in Iowa.

The oldest university museum west of the Mississippi retains its 19th century feel.

A mysteriously dark cemetery monument fuels stories and legends galore.

The remains of a bustling turn-of-the-century park built to showcase the wonders of electricity.

A pop-culture attraction outside of Dyersville, Iowa, hits a home run.

An old town theater converted into a celebration of the hobo legacy.

For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.

Home of mutant livestock.

This small museum contains fossils from an era when Kansas was underwater.

A local shop filled with handcrafted art and funky home furnishings, vintage, and antiques.

This 100-foot tall bluff located in the western plains of Kansas overlooks a massive reservoir.

These otherworldly limestone formations jut out from the Kansas prairie.

The 55-pound trichobezoar was removed from the stomach of a cow.

Metal sculpture folk art lining the Kansas Highway.

The holiday spirit lingers year-round in the "Christmas City of the High Plains."

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

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

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

Giant works of art interspersed throughout meadows and woodlands offer a new discovery at every turn.

This mausoleum is the final resting place of one of St. Louis's richest and most tragic families.

This 1854 courthouse along the Mississippi River has a storied history.

This curious headstone is labeled simply as "The Queen."