Places Mama Shotts Wants to Go

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

This simple stone monument honors a 19th-century tragedy.

Over 600 acres of idyllic open grassland honor Nebraska’s georgic storyteller.

A Winnebago Tribe collection featuring arrowheads, artwork, and a mysterious rock carving.

This little gem of a museum is a hidden jewel filled with prehistoric treasures.

Storage units with a wartime past.

America's largest man-made forest was planted in an effort to bring back the past.

An Englishman loses his scalp to a Cheyenne warrior and lives to donate it to a library.

This once rural mansion now sits in the heart of the city.

This was the first homestead registered after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law.

Four ionic columns from the Treasury Department building ended up in a park in Nebraska.

A rancher expanding a natural spring for his cattle came up with bones – lots and lots of them.

Underneath downtown Lincoln resides a network of caves that was also the city's first brewery.

This replica small town lets visitors take a stroll through the story of progress in the U.S. via thousands of Americana artifacts.

When an ancient supervolcano erupted, some of Nebraska's prehistoric animals were forever preserved in ash.

These experimental weapons brought World War II to Nebraska as well as 26 other U.S. states.

Site of the 1879 Cheyenne Outbreak and the site where famed Sioux chief Crazy Horse met his fate.

An idle pastime becomes a record holder in Boys Town, Nebraska.

Otherworldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

A lighthouse on this West Virginia lake started as a joke, then the forces of nature helped make it a reality.