Mineral Wells, Texas
The Baker Hotel
Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.
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Mineral Wells, Texas
Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.
Amarillo, Texas
A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.
Paris, Texas
In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.
Fredericksburg, Texas
Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.
Glen Rose, Texas
Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.
Houston, Texas
A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.
Canyon, Texas
The Grand Canyon of Texas.
Austin, Texas
Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
Amarillo, Texas
A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.
Fort Worth, Texas
A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.
Arcadia, Oklahoma
The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.
Mullinville, Kansas
Metal sculpture folk art lining the Kansas Highway.
Lindsborg, Kansas
A unique blue and yellow phone booth in America's "Little Sweden."
Wichita, Kansas
The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.
Hutchinson, Kansas
The world’s largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian aircraft got its start in a poultry building.
Meade, Kansas
This Wild West attraction is probably more fiction than history, but that doesn't mean it's not awesome.
Brookville, Kansas
Curious rock formations in a tiny Kansas state park.
Liberal, Kansas
A house turned museum is the real-life "home" of the fictional main character of The Wizard of Oz.
Greensburg, Kansas
The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.
Lindsborg, Kansas
Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.
Oakley, Kansas
One of the Eight Wonders of Kansas and the first official National Natural Monument these stark formations look like nature's Stonehenge.
Nathrop, Colorado
All that remains of this once-booming mining town are the ruins of a saloon.
Denver, Colorado
The spot in the Mile-High City that's exactly 5,280 feet above sea level (at least for now).
Denver, Colorado
The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.