Des Moines, Iowa
'Better Homes and Gardens' Test Garden
The magazine keeps a perfectly groomed display garden for its photo shoots.
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Des Moines, Iowa
The magazine keeps a perfectly groomed display garden for its photo shoots.
Winterset, Iowa
This simple home was the beginning of a long journey for the iconic Western film star.
Topeka, Kansas
Journey up the capitol building's cupola for an amazing view of Topeka.
Winterset, Iowa
Romance fans worldwide make the pilgrimage to this group of historic covered bridges in rural Iowa.
Knob Noster, Missouri
The only remaining Cold War–era Minuteman II missile control center in Missouri.
Kansas City, Missouri
The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.
Kansas City, Missouri
Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.
Kansas City, Missouri
This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.
Kansas City, Missouri
Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.
Villisca, Iowa
This seemingly charming home memorializes and honors the victims of a century-old unsolved murder.
Kearney, Missouri
The final resting place of the legendary outlaw.
Kearney, Missouri
One of America's first planned communities is preserved in a state park.
St. Joseph, Missouri
The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.
St. Joseph, Missouri
The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.
St. Joseph, Missouri
The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.
Gallatin, Missouri
A Mormon place of exile in Missouri.
Gallatin, Missouri
This octagonal rotary jail built in 1889 now serves as a visitor's center.