Places hopemch Wants to Go

The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.

A museum documents the development of the invention that tamed the Wild West.

The world’s largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian aircraft got its start in a poultry building.

See the motorcycles that launched the stuntman to fame and the gear that saved his life.

Lone survivor from Custer's Last Stand forever preserved.

This sacred space and gathering spot for the Wyandot Nation has been the surrounded by controversy and confusion.

A museum where visitors can learn about greyhounds and (more importantly) pet them.

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

This Wild West attraction is probably more fiction than history, but that doesn't mean it's not awesome.

Stories of sightless fish and ghostly cowboys are only a fraction of the legends surrounding this Kansas sinkhole.

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.

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

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

A cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.

This Italianate Villa-style castle is pretty to look at, just keep off the private property.

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

The first home of the doomed aviator Amelia Earhart.

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.

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

A mysterious and terrifying public art goblin seemingly meant to inspire local legend.

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.

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

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