Places Sarah Finley Wants to Go

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.

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

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

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

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

A fascinating collection of art made from petrified wood and fossils by two octogenarian twin brothers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A brick-paved former section of the historic coast-to-coast highway.

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

In an alley not far from where two great highways meet, byways of a very different sort are honored.

This small Arkansas town once had a close encounter with the Beatles, and are determined never to let anyone forget that. Ever.

Ernest Hemingway wrote a good portion of "A Farewell to Arms" while living with the parents of his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

A slanted tomb honors the faithful, furry companion of the Georgia Tech student body.

Two Civil War-era cemeteries stuck between runways at the world's busiest airport.

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

A gaudy painted elephant stands in memory of south Florida's fallen carnies.