Austin, Texas
Congress Bridge Bats
Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
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Austin, Texas
Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
Dallas, Texas
A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.
Dallas, Texas
This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.
Dallas, Texas
A 28-exhibit museum about the history, culture, and oddities of money. Visitors stand in a cash shower, try to crack a vault, and discover what it's like to barter when no money is allowed.
Las Vegas, Nevada
This Las Vegas casino boasts one of only three spiral escalators in the United States—an engineering wonder.
Las Vegas, Nevada
An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.
Los Angeles, California
This nondescript tunnel has been featured in a number of iconic movies, from “Roger Rabbit” to “Back to the Future.”
Los Angeles, California
High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.
Keystone, South Dakota
This towering wooden Sasquatch was carved with a chainsaw.
Sundance, Wyoming
An antique Beechcraft airplane serves as a giant windsock for people driving through the blustery open country of eastern Wyoming.
Devils Tower, Wyoming
The first declared National Monument in the United States.
Belle Fourche, South Dakota
Yes, this monument is aware that it is about 20 miles away from the actual center of the United States.
Custer, South Dakota
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
Alliance, Nebraska
An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.
Bayard, Nebraska
This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.
Last Chance, Colorado
Winter and summer solstice aligned sculpture in the middle of nowhere.
Meade, Kansas
This Wild West attraction is probably more fiction than history, but that doesn't mean it's not awesome.
Mullinville, Kansas
Metal sculpture folk art lining the Kansas Highway.
Greensburg, Kansas
The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.
Hutchinson, Kansas
The world’s largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian aircraft got its start in a poultry building.
Minneapolis, Kansas
A landscape of massive spherical boulders are the main attraction in this Kansas State Park.
Belleville, Kansas
A real haunted house with an extensive history going back to 1893.
Hebron, Nebraska
At 32 feet long, this swing is big enough for the whole family—and then some.
Omaha, Nebraska
A life-size bronze statue of Ettore Boiardi, the man behind the can.