Alma, Arkansas
Popeye Statue
Bronze statue marks the spinach capital of the world.
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Alma, Arkansas
Bronze statue marks the spinach capital of the world.
Joplin, Missouri
A small museum dedicated to the whimsical tool that turns sugar cookies into works of art.
Carthage, Missouri
An adorably sweet display of sculpted Precious Moments figurines.
Kansas City, Missouri
The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.
Meade, Kansas
This Wild West attraction is probably more fiction than history, but that doesn't mean it's not awesome.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
This mountaintop refuge rehabilitates tigers, lions, bears, and more from illicit wildlife trade—and offers overnight lodging.
Springfield, Missouri
A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.
Springfield, Missouri
An unexpected but incredible collection of wildlife dioramas spanning rainforests, swamps, forests, and plains.
Springfield, Missouri
Creativity is far from extinct in Missouri, and this painted dinosaur is no exception!
Adair, Iowa
Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.
Audubon, Iowa
The World's Largest Bull.
Hamilton, Missouri
Outside the Missouri Quilt Museum, this large spool has more than one million yards of thread—and counting.
Chanute, Kansas
A Google software engineer's Easter egg led to what may be the world's most unusual saved screenshot.
Oakley, Kansas
A statue high in a hill that represents how Buffalo Bill got his name.
Kansas City, Missouri
Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.
St. Joseph, Missouri
The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.
Boys Town, Nebraska
An idle pastime becomes a record holder in Boys Town, Nebraska.
Lawrence, Kansas
The quirky collection includes treasures like Elvis' underwear, Bob Barker's toothbrush, and hundreds of sock monkeys.
Atchison, Kansas
The first home of the doomed aviator Amelia Earhart.
Wichita, Kansas
The first "Hut" was actually a small brick building.
Muscotah, Kansas
This unfinished tribute to a hometown hero and early baseball great is now an abandoned roadside attraction.
Topeka, Kansas
See the motorcycles that launched the stuntman to fame and the gear that saved his life.
Topeka, Kansas
A rainbow-colored house promotes LGBTQ rights across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church.
Hastings, Nebraska
This museum started by a curious collector is now a place for believers and skeptics alike.