Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Museum of Osteology and Skulls Unlimited
Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."
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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."
Pauls Valley, Oklahoma
The world's only museum devoted solely to the art and collection of action figures.
Saint James, Missouri
Over 600 vacuum cleaners stack the shelves of what may be the cleanest museum in America.
Springfield, Missouri
A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.
Kansas City, Missouri
Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.
Independence, Missouri
A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.
Kansas City, Missouri
Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.
St. Joseph, Missouri
The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.
Mitchell, South Dakota
A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.
Hot Springs, South Dakota
This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.
Wall, South Dakota
The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.
Custer, South Dakota
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
Blanchard, North Dakota
This sky-high radio mast is formerly the tallest man-made structure in the world.
New Salem, North Dakota
The world's largest Holstein cow.
Jamestown, North Dakota
A true roadside icon standing on the same plains that the herds once roamed.
Fargo, North Dakota
"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"
Jamestown, North Dakota
Three legendary, living albino buffalo roaming their pastures for all to see.
Glendive, Montana
The oldest badlands in North America, Makoshika State Park takes it name from the Lakota words for broken land.
West Glacier, Montana
The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.
Sitka, Alaska
The first Russian Orthodox church in North America and an Alaskan landmark.
Ketchikan, Alaska
One of two side-by-side totem pole parks dedicated to educating visitors on Tlingit history and culture.
Anchorage, Alaska
A high school astronomy enthusiast designed this model of our solar system to be traversed on foot.
Barrow, Alaska
The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.
Fairbanks, Alaska
North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."