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Outside the Missouri Quilt Museum, this large spool has more than one million yards of thread—and counting.

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

A park to honor all U.S. Armed Forces veterans, and Emporia's status as the founding city of Veterans Day.

Miners in Michigan developed a taste for Cornish beef pasties, which this roadside stand has been selling since 1947.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

This marker identifies the location where three states converge.

The highest point in Oklahoma used to be a lawless outlaw's paradise.

On a college campus in the Oklahoma panhandle a museum honors the last piece of the contiguous United States to be classified as No Man's Land.

At Oklahoma Panhandle State University, a plaque marks a place once known as No Man's Land in the linear world and the fictional Kcymaerxthaere as well.

Is this 47.7-mile stretch of highway the longest straight road in the United States?

One man’s vision of living among dinosaurs credits Jesus Christ as the engine of biological evolution.

A 30-foot-tall sculpture pays homage to what was once the Steering Wheel Capital of the World.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

Almost half-way between the Equator and North Pole.

Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

The statue, located at a mansion-turned-emancipation museum, honors Galveston’s history as the birthplace of Juneteenth.

Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

Despite changing times, the legendary stage has proved the show must always go on.

One of the largest historical collections on Texas and the American West.

This memorial and the seawall that it stands near are powerful symbols of the island’s resilience.

Constructed in 1859 as a general store and post office, the store is still used to this day and was featured in the Walking Dead series.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.