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

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

This massive railroad spike celebrates the 1939 premiere of the movie “Union Pacific.”

An obelisk commemorating Lincoln's role in connecting the coasts.

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

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

An ornate Art Deco tile mosaic representing Nebraskan life, both modern and prehistoric.

See the motorcycles that launched the stuntman to fame and the gear that saved his life.

Lone survivor from Custer's Last Stand forever preserved.

A Kansas nature preserve protecting the plants and animals that once stretched across central North America.

Some say that the battle fought at this Kansas site in 1856 was the first unofficial battle of the American Civil War.

The oldest purpose-built cinema still in operation also houses a museum of movie memorabilia.

This bird statue was created to mark the site of a radio transmitter.

Journey up the capitol building's cupola for an amazing view of Topeka.

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

The final resting place of the legendary outlaw.

The site of the first daylight, peacetime bank robbery by the James gang.

The ruins of a 19th century shelter run by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

This mansion was made famous by its colorful cast of owners and location along the Sante Fe Trail.

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

The golden age of flight captured in a downtown airport.

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