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Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

One of the Eight Wonders of Kansas and the first official National Natural Monument these stark formations look like nature's Stonehenge.

At this leafy estate, one man’s passion for trees grew into Arbor Day.

From this scenic rockface, you can still see the paths Western pioneers followed.

Meet cowboys and ancient beardogs at this one-of-a-kind crossroads of Western history.

Once a slice of Cold War-era military history, this museum is finding its future in the stars.

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

After sitting abandoned for decades, this historic mine is now the only publicly accessible chalk room and pillar mine in North America.

In addition to fishing and camping, this spot in Nebraska’s Sandhills is one of the world’s darkest places.

A museum chronicling pioneer life constructed over Interstate 80.

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

Site of the 1879 Cheyenne Outbreak and the site where famed Sioux chief Crazy Horse met his fate.

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

This once rural mansion now sits in the heart of the city.

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

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

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.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

Before its closure in 2002, this South Dakota mine was the largest and deepest gold mine in Western Hemisphere.

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

Despite monuments in other locations, this spot in a South Dakota field is recognized by the U.S. National Geodetic Survey as the center of the 50 states.

One of the largest private collections of fossils in the world.

One of the first intercontinental ballistic missile sites in the United States.