Anamosa, Iowa
Stone City
Remnants of a quarry company town still stand on the banks of the Wapsipinicon River.
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Anamosa, Iowa
Remnants of a quarry company town still stand on the banks of the Wapsipinicon River.
Villisca, Iowa
This seemingly charming home memorializes and honors the victims of a century-old unsolved murder.
Newton, Kansas
This vivid painted ceramic sculpture evokes the expansiveness of the prairie sky.
Topeka, Kansas
A rainbow-colored house promotes LGBTQ rights across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church.
Junction City, Kansas
A monument celebrating the Black soldiers of the 9th and 10th Cavalry.
Lucas, Kansas
This artsy public restroom is shaped like a giant john.
Lucas, Kansas
A Kansas grassroots sculptor decorates the local roadways with his sculptures made from found objects.
Portis, Kansas
A small-town limestone memorial to a local cartoonist and to Porky Pig, his most famous subject.
Lucas, Kansas
Self-built house and sculpture park where the creator can still be seen in a glass coffin.
Wilson, Kansas
A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.
Lucas, Kansas
A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.
Lucas, Kansas
Kansas's Grassroots Art Capital welcomes visitors to Lucas through its very own World's Largest Thing.
Salina, Kansas
Salina's eye-catching giant mural depicting children at play is painted atop a century-old mill elevator.
WaKeeney, Kansas
The holiday spirit lingers year-round in the "Christmas City of the High Plains."
Hays, Kansas
The first graveyard named "Boot Hill" was established in Hays, Kansas, years before better known cemeteries with the same name.
Vashon, Washington
Thomas Dambo's troll sculpture wears a crown with birdhouses on his head.
Chiloquin, Oregon
All aboard the world's longest miniature railway.
Kanab, Utah
Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."
Panguitch, Utah
The notorious Wild West outlaw was raised in this unassuming abode.
Kingsburg, California
A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.
Devils Tower, Wyoming
The first declared National Monument in the United States.
Spokane, Washington
Local legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghosts.
Seattle, Washington
A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.
Seattle, Washington
Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.