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This sculpture by a local artist is designed to celebrate the first day of each new season.

A meticulously restored Wichita home designed by the most renowned American architect of the 20th century.

This mid-19th-century dugout was once home to a Swedish family as they erected their homestead.

Over 30 brightly painted Dala horses roam through ‘Little Sweden.’

In the heart of Little Sweden USA, a small gallery and museum pays tribute to a Swedish-born artist who fell in love with the American landscape.

It's a tiny roadside universe of welded folk-art creatures built by one man who turned farm-repair welding into an imaginative anything goes sculpture garden that you stumble upon by accident and walk away remembering.

Celebrating the cultural heritage of Kansas’s premier cowtown.

Don't pass Gas, stop and enjoy it.

See the world's biggest spool of thread, along with the largest collection of sewing machines.

Learn about puppetry and get a chance to make your own puppet.

Three historic trains run on a half-mile track that features a tunnel.

The largest collection of woven silk tapestries in the world.

This unfinished tribute to a hometown hero and early baseball great is now an abandoned roadside attraction.

An eclectic collection of mathematical items that include puzzles, art, calculating devices, and historical reproductions.

The state's only comprehensive museum dedicated to the mineral that defined its history and economy.

The last funhouse of its kind, where guests enter through the mouth of an 80-year-old blue whale.

The only land territory disputed between the U.S. and Canada.

A memorial to an ill-fated Holy Land mission once described by Mark Twain as “a complete fiasco.”

Five mythical trolls have taken up residence in woods and hidden on paths at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.

This roadside stand claims to be the world's smallest bookstore.

Plaque remembering the 18th century forced relocation of Acadians.

This architectural onion has an original 1930's Jerry O'Mahony dining car at its core.

A restored historic movie theater is the perfect place for a regional film archive.

This eclectic natural history collection holds everything from a bit of the trans-atlantic cable to Hemingway's marlin.