Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

A museum documents the development of the invention that tamed the Wild West.

This sacred space and gathering spot for the Wyandot Nation has been the surrounded by controversy and confusion.

A Kansas grassroots sculptor decorates the local roadways with his sculptures made from found objects.

A diverse, expansive nature preserve in northeastern Kansas.

A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.

This Italianate Villa-style castle is pretty to look at, just keep off the private property.

The first home of the doomed aviator Amelia Earhart.

A cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.

A whimsical monument marks the highest point in Kansas, not that you could tell by the looks of it.

A mysterious and terrifying public art goblin seemingly meant to inspire local legend.

A house turned museum is the real-life "home" of the fictional main character of The Wizard of Oz.

Curious rock formations in a tiny Kansas state park.

A landscape of massive spherical boulders are the main attraction in this Kansas State Park.

The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.

Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

Massive still life just off the highway in Kansas.

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

The farming museum contains an extensive taxidermy collection, including the world's largest stuffed horse.

In an odd geographic anomaly this city borders two different states on opposite sides of town.

A cult archaeology conspiracy theory claims these West Virginia petroglyphs were written by Irish monks in Ogham.

A memorial in coal country commemorates the victims of an all-too-preventable mining disaster.

A monument marks the location of the first successful steamboat demonstration.

Smack in the midst of coal country, this collection provides a peoples' history of Appalachian miners' heritage.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.