The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

The farm toy capital of the world hosts a museum filled with toy tractors dating back to the late 1800s.

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

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

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

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

A winged-helmed, sword-brandishing tribute to German Americans.

A tribute to the twin ideals of religion and patriotism, built by a Catholic priest from rocks, glass, and innumerable found items.

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

One of America's first planned communities is preserved in a state park.

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.

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

This historic cliffside mansion uses a natural cave for air conditioning.

The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.

A geological oddity formed by two rivers carving out a mass of limestone on both sides.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

Curious cave that stays a cool 56 degrees all year long.