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Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.

The world's longest known cave system.

This statue is an ode to an iconic roadside advertisement popularized during the 1970s.

A local shop filled with handcrafted art and funky home furnishings, vintage, and antiques.

The oldest house in Lindsborg, Kansas, includes some fascinating inscriptions.

This historic early-20th-century building still boasts some of its original features.

This century-old painting of a portly 10-foot-tall man spent years hidden behind plaster.

Journey up the capitol building's cupola for an amazing view of Topeka.

Hundreds of samples of "Devil's Rope" hide in a defunct vintage elevator.

This tiny old water tower once doubled as a makeshift jail.

A mysterious local has been dressing the child's grave for decades.

Tribute to the famous Notre Dame football coach who died in a plane crash.

The holiday spirit lingers year-round in the "Christmas City of the High Plains."

This historic church is named for abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher and the ruse to arm his fellow abolitionists.

A unique blue and yellow phone booth in America's "Little Sweden."

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

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

A tiny racehorse graveyard in the middle of a quiet Kansas City suburb.

This quaint museum lets you take a ride on its antique carousels.

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

The face of the famed flier in a hillside in her hometown.

A college in rural Kansas founded to prepare the country for an impending World War III.

A unique gallery chronicles the losers of American presidential history.

This artsy public restroom is shaped like a giant john.