This vivid painted ceramic sculpture evokes the expansiveness of the prairie sky.

A former Army airfield is home to one of the largest aviation museums in America.

Raised high above the Cimarron River, this 1,268-foot rail bridge followed a half-century of trainwrecks, bridge collapses, and an abandoned town.

One of the oldest show caves in Arkansas.

The warmest cave in the Ozarks features two seemingly bottomless lakes.

The largest cattle market on earth holds live auctions open to the public every week.

Kansas's Grassroots Art Capital welcomes visitors to Lucas through its very own World's Largest Thing.

This classic Kansas City song reference is the place for anyone who wants to stand at the corner of 12th Street and Vine.

One of the oldest continuously operating amusement parks in the U.S. is an open-air museum of Art Deco and neon lights.

A Route 66 filling station that was designed to resemble the Hagia Sophia, and is now the symbol of an arts district.

Salina's eye-catching giant mural depicting children at play is painted atop a century-old mill elevator.

This open-air reconstruction of an Old West town, a cross between a theme park and a museum, provides an immersive historical experience.

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

A series of silhouettes that recall the great cattle drives of the 19th-century.

This historic Ellinwood hotel is also home to underground tunnels that were a popular haunt during Prohibition.

See the home and the range on which "Home on the Range" was arranged.

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

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

Don't pass Gas, stop and enjoy it.

A museum celebrating a couple who loved to travel the world and to bring its treasures back to Montezuma, Kansas.

A small-town limestone memorial to a local cartoonist and to Porky Pig, his most famous subject.

Once a giant oak that served as the region's post office.

The largest mural in the world painted by a single artist.

All that remains of this abandoned coal town is a beautiful, haunting cemetery.