Marceline, Missouri
Walt Disney Hometown Museum
A celebration of the animation wizard's childhood home and antique railroad memorabilia collection.
Places I've been
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Marceline, Missouri
A celebration of the animation wizard's childhood home and antique railroad memorabilia collection.
Columbia, Missouri
This majestic tree has survived 400 years of storms, droughts, and floods, and is a beloved natural landmark in Missouri.
Sedalia, Missouri
This historic cliffside mansion uses a natural cave for air conditioning.
St. Joseph, Missouri
The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.
Springfield, Missouri
A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.
Columbia, Missouri
Curious cave that stays a cool 56 degrees all year long.
Laredo, Texas
The biggest drug trafficking passage between Mexico and the U.S.
Dallas, Texas
A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.
Springfield, Illinois
When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.
Meade, Kansas
This Wild West attraction is probably more fiction than history, but that doesn't mean it's not awesome.
Panhandle, Texas
The only nuclear weapon assembly and disassembly plant in the U.S.
Amarillo, Texas
These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.
Dallas, Texas
A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.
What Cheer, Iowa
No one knows the origin of this small town’s unique name.
Marble Falls Township, Arkansas
A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."
Alamogordo, New Mexico
Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.
Des Moines, Iowa
Piled high inside this warehouse and coffee shop are salvaged goods that span every corner of the globe.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.
Calhan, Colorado
Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.
Groom, Texas
This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.
Culberson County, Texas
The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.
Fort Worth, Texas
A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.