Places heathersfour Wants to Go

The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.

The remote island home of the overlooked explorer who co-discovered the theory of evolution by natural selection.

A diorama lover's dream world.

In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.

Roaming bison and a spectacular view at the highest point in Nebraska.

More than 150 working bells from churches and one-room-schoolhouses across the Great Plains are assembled in one man's yard.

Home to the world's largest quilt collection dating from the 1600s through today.

Inside this magical collection, you can buy recipes cooked up by church ladies, motorcycle clubs, and clowns.

This once rural mansion now sits in the heart of the city.

This Nebraska town wants to double its population with plywood cut-outs of townsfolk.

This was the first homestead registered after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law.

Underneath downtown Lincoln resides a network of caves that was also the city's first brewery.

A rancher expanding a natural spring for his cattle came up with bones – lots and lots of them.

These experimental weapons brought World War II to Nebraska as well as 26 other U.S. states.

An ornate Art Deco tile mosaic representing Nebraskan life, both modern and prehistoric.

When an ancient supervolcano erupted, some of Nebraska's prehistoric animals were forever preserved in ash.

America's smallest town is run by its single citizen/mayor/librarian/bartender.

A brick-paved former section of the historic coast-to-coast highway.

The two-cell building in Nebraska was briefly owned by a teenage boy and then a Hollywood dummy.

An idle pastime becomes a record holder in Boys Town, Nebraska.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

Home of mutant livestock.

A cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.