Places GINGERTRAVELS Wants to Go

This three-dimensional brick mural is the longest of its kind in the United States.

Hundreds of samples of "Devil's Rope" hide in a defunct vintage elevator.

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

The 55-pound trichobezoar was removed from the stomach of a cow.

This 100-foot tall bluff located in the western plains of Kansas overlooks a massive reservoir.

A unique blue and yellow phone booth in America's "Little Sweden."

Once an ancient sea, this landscape of rocky ravines is filled with the fossils of ancient marine life.

This 41,000-acre wetland complex is the largest marsh in the interior of the United States.

A statue high in a hill that represents how Buffalo Bill got his name.

Enjoy a tour of oddities and makeshift monsters at this souvenir store with an offbeat sense of humor.

This lesser-known geographic marker was the reference point for all surveys of the continent for 75 years.

The holiday spirit lingers year-round in the "Christmas City of the High Plains."

The world’s largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian aircraft got its start in a poultry building.

The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.

Stories of sightless fish and ghostly cowboys are only a fraction of the legends surrounding this Kansas sinkhole.

This Wild West attraction is probably more fiction than history, but that doesn't mean it's not awesome.

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

These otherworldly limestone formations jut out from the Kansas prairie.

A diverse, expansive nature preserve in northeastern Kansas.

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

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

The first home of the doomed aviator Amelia Earhart.

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