Places heatherrowephr Wants to Go

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

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

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

Topeka has its own great wall, and it's covered in colorful images from the city's history.

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

This artsy public restroom is shaped like a giant john.

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.

These otherworldly limestone formations jut out from the Kansas prairie.

The first "Hut" was actually a small brick building.

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

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

The first home of the doomed aviator Amelia Earhart.

Curious rock formations in a tiny Kansas state park.

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

A rainbow-colored house promotes LGBTQ rights across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church.

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

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

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

During the 1990's nearly all of the world's LSD is thought to have come from the operators of the lab once located in this missile silo.

The quirky collection includes treasures like Elvis' underwear, Bob Barker's toothbrush, and hundreds of sock monkeys.

Massive still life just off the highway in Kansas.

These elevated trucks were put in place as a middle finger to The Man, but are now considered folk art.

One of the Eight Wonders of Kansas and the first official National Natural Monument these stark formations look like nature's Stonehenge.