La Crosse, Kansas
Kansas Barbed Wire Museum
A museum documents the development of the invention that tamed the Wild West.
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La Crosse, Kansas
A museum documents the development of the invention that tamed the Wild West.
Hutchinson, Kansas
Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.
Hutchinson, Kansas
The world’s largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian aircraft got its start in a poultry building.
Junction City, Kansas
A cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.
Topeka, Kansas
These elevated trucks were put in place as a middle finger to The Man, but are now considered folk art.
Overland Park, Kansas
Step back in time at this 1950s display home, built to showcase once cutting-edge electric amenities.
Kansas City, Missouri
A cave 150 feet beneath Kansas City is the perfect climate for growing 10,000 delicate orchids.
Independence, Missouri
A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.
Independence, Missouri
This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.
Columbia, Missouri
Curious cave that stays a cool 56 degrees all year long.
Columbia, Missouri
Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.
Sumner, Missouri
This 40-foot fowl marks the so-called "wild goose capital of the world."
Walcott, Iowa
The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.
Burlington, Iowa
While there are no actual snakes in the history of this crooked road, there may be a number of dead horses.
Eldon, Iowa
Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.
Riverside, Iowa
A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.
Zionsville, Indiana
A collection of over 2000 air-moving devices of all kinds displayed in the Fanimation headquarters.
Indianapolis, Indiana
This elaborate estate contains a stunning marble aviary, a sunken conservatory, and a magnificent music room with a two-story pipe organ.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Where beautiful signs live on forever.
Fort Mitchell, Kentucky
A museum that houses the world's largest collection of ventriloquism dummies.
Petersburg, Kentucky
A 70,000-square-foot institution dedicated to a very literal, creationist perspective on the Book of Genesis.
Maysville, Kentucky
This small museum is kept in a house that was integral to the genesis of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Williamstown, Kentucky
A theme park featuring a replica of Noah's Ark built to the measurements specified in the Bible.
Burlington, Kentucky
Rabbit Hash is a heaping slice of Americana from another era, with a very peculiar origin behind its unusual name.