Romance fans worldwide make the pilgrimage to this group of historic covered bridges in rural Iowa.

This simple home was the beginning of a long journey for the iconic Western film star.

This hand-carved wooden carousel in the Story City North Park was built in 1913.

A museum chronicling pioneer life constructed over Interstate 80.

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

See the home and the range on which "Home on the Range" was arranged.

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

Curious rock formations in a tiny Kansas state park.

The first graveyard named "Boot Hill" was established in Hays, Kansas, years before better known cemeteries with the same name.

The ruins of the northernmost pueblo in the Americas tell the story of a mixing of native cultures.

This Wild West attraction is probably more fiction than history, but that doesn't mean it's not awesome.

Stories of sightless fish and ghostly cowboys are only a fraction of the legends surrounding this Kansas sinkhole.

Metal sculpture folk art lining the Kansas Highway.

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

The only remaining sod house Oklahoma built by a homesteader in 1894.

This unique landscape is the only place in the world to dig for hourglass-selenite crystals.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

A saloon and inn that served the Wild West's most iconic figures—and is still haunted by some of them today.

An unconventional monument to one of America's largest landowners.

Spectacular 300-foot cliffs in a lush mountain canyon.

Possibly the world's only drive-in movie theater with an attached motel.