Places GRH Wants to Go

A place to pay homage to Taíno heritage.

This ''hidden'' 19th-century bridge played a simple, yet important role during the Spanish-American War.

On a clear day, you can see all the way to the Virgin Islands from the top of this observation tower built in the 1960s.

This historic Ellinwood hotel is also home to underground tunnels that were a popular haunt during Prohibition.

In this rural town square, a unique statue honors the inventor of the microchip.

Created by Catalan artist Joan Miró in 1978 and made up of 350,000 tiles, this mural is the only large-scale glass mosaic the artist ever created.

The largest mural in the world painted by a single artist.

After retiring, Gary Pendergrass turned his yard into a wonderland of outsider art.

This unique landscape is the only place in the world to dig for hourglass-selenite crystals.

The only remaining sod house Oklahoma built by a homesteader in 1894.

A larger-than-life monument to the overlooked women who braved Western expansion and broke down societal barriers.

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

This roadside park filled with unusual statues is on the grounds of an abandoned railway station.

This rural roadside cross marks the farthest point of Coronado's expedition, and the place where the Catholic faith first came to America.

The ruins of the northernmost pueblo in the Americas tell the story of a mixing of native cultures.

Curious rock formations in a tiny Kansas state park.

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

This roadside prairie Statue of Liberty replica is one of the foremost examples of the Boy Scouts of America's "Strengthen the Arm of Liberty" campaign.

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

Also known as the Cathedral of the Plains, this church holds the distinction of being one of the "8 Wonders of Kansas."

This vivid painted ceramic sculpture evokes the expansiveness of the prairie sky.

Metal sculpture folk art lining the Kansas Highway.