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One of the Eight Wonders of Kansas and the first official National Natural Monument these stark formations look like nature's Stonehenge.

During the 1990's nearly all of the world's LSD is thought to have come from the operators of the lab once located in this missile silo.

This historic church is named for abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher and the ruse to arm his fellow abolitionists.

The two-cell building in Nebraska was briefly owned by a teenage boy and then a Hollywood dummy.

Metal sculpture folk art lining the Kansas Highway.

Homestead Cemetery hold the remains of the United States' first known professional tattoo artists.

The first "Hut" was actually a small brick building.

The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.

The home for all things Kool-Aid offers everything except a chance to actually enjoy the drink.

The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.

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

A diverse, expansive nature preserve in northeastern Kansas.

These otherworldly limestone formations jut out from the Kansas prairie.

A monument celebrating the Black soldiers of the 9th and 10th Cavalry.

The holiday spirit lingers year-round in the "Christmas City of the High Plains."

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

The world’s largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian aircraft got its start in a poultry building.

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

This historic early-20th-century building still boasts some of its original features.

A unique blue and yellow phone booth in America's "Little Sweden."

This mid-19th-century dugout was once home to a Swedish family as they erected their homestead.

Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

A landscape of massive spherical boulders are the main attraction in this Kansas State Park.

Curious rock formations in a tiny Kansas state park.