Places N2ak Wants to Go

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

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.

Home to fossils and other specimens from the Western Interior Seaway.

Once an ancient sea, this landscape of rocky ravines is filled with the fossils of ancient marine life.

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

A college in rural Kansas founded to prepare the country for an impending World War III.

This ostentatious Italianate palace of an Oklahoma billionaire is filled with several themed mini-museums.

A larger-than-life monument to the overlooked women who braved Western expansion and broke down societal barriers.

To honor his gardening wife, this yard artist turns bowling balls into playful, colorful sculptures.

Amtrak's least-used stop in the entire country sits in a tiny West Texas town.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

A plaque recognizes "unquestionably the most widely published photograph in rural electrification history."

This massive marble memorial was built bit by bit either out of devotion or spite, but at the expense of the surrounding town.

This unfinished tribute to a hometown hero and early baseball great is now an abandoned roadside attraction.

The ruins of this former mining boomtown once housed over 3,000 people. Now, the population is two.

A one-of-a-kind sundial at the Very Large Array honors a radio astronomy pioneer, incorporating the original piers from his breakthrough radio telescope.

The highest point in Oklahoma used to be a lawless outlaw's paradise.

Over 50 historic windmills whir away at this outdoor museum.

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

The world's largest mineral hot springs is home to a herd of bison, a free public bath house, beautiful mineral formations, and a terrifying swinging bridge.

This 35-foot troll in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, was made by the world’s leading recycling artist as part of a global fairytale.

This rustic old building is said to be the most photographed barn in America.