Places Ethan Z Wants to Go

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

This museum started by a curious collector is now a place for believers and skeptics alike.

Whimsical cartoon cars suspended on posts soar over an automotive shop.

The two-cell building in Nebraska was briefly owned by a teenage boy and then a Hollywood dummy.

This replica small town lets visitors take a stroll through the story of progress in the U.S. via thousands of Americana artifacts.

Over 600 acres of idyllic open grassland honor Nebraska’s georgic storyteller.

Roaming bison and a spectacular view at the highest point in Nebraska.

This old-school soda shop is the home of the Tin Roof Sundae, a concoction dripping in chocolate, marshmallow, and peanuts.

Storage units with a wartime past.

This Nebraska museum was once the smallest courthouse in America.

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

America's smallest town is run by its single citizen/mayor/librarian/bartender.

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

More than 150 working bells from churches and one-room-schoolhouses across the Great Plains are assembled in one man's yard.

This town of 100 people has approximately one bronze sculpture for every two residents.

This Nebraska town wants to double its population with plywood cut-outs of townsfolk.

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

The oldest extant wooden jail in South Dakota and possibly the United States. 

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

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

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."