Baraboo, Wisconsin
Man Mound
The remains of a enormous earthen figure of unknown origins cuts across a rural Wisconsin road.
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Baraboo, Wisconsin
The remains of a enormous earthen figure of unknown origins cuts across a rural Wisconsin road.
Blue Mounds, Wisconsin
This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.
Riverside, Iowa
A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.
Mountain Township, Illinois
In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.
St. Louis, Missouri
A plaque on the side of a parking garage marks the burial place of a great Ottawa chief.
Council Bluffs, Iowa
An obelisk commemorating Lincoln's role in connecting the coasts.
Regent, North Dakota
One man's quest to save his town with a trail of record-breaking sculptures.
Lemmon, South Dakota
This monument remembers one of the manliest men of the frontier who fought a grizzly before dragging himself 200 miles to safety.
Belle Fourche, South Dakota
Yes, this monument is aware that it is about 20 miles away from the actual center of the United States.
Rapid City, South Dakota
One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.
Philip, South Dakota
Dedicated to the history of the 1,000 nuclear missiles that once covered the Great Plains.
New Salem, North Dakota
The world's largest Holstein cow.
New Ulm, Minnesota
A winged-helmed, sword-brandishing tribute to German Americans.
Pipestone, Minnesota
A town honors its legacy of traditional American Indian pipe carving with one gigantic pipe.
Bonne Terre, Missouri
The world's largest man-made underground caverns offer unparalleled underwater wonders.
Kansas City, Kansas
This sacred space and gathering spot for the Wyandot Nation has been the surrounded by controversy and confusion.
Sappington, Missouri
Giant works of art interspersed throughout meadows and woodlands offer a new discovery at every turn.
Kansas City, Missouri
Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.
Kansas City, Missouri
The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.
Gallatin, Missouri
A Mormon place of exile in Missouri.
Independence, Missouri
This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.
Spiro, Oklahoma
Where hills of dirt conceal the burial ground of one of the most powerful ancient Native American societies.
St. Louis, Missouri
One of the world's earliest skyscrapers.
West Lafayette, Indiana
The large rock formation where the Shawnee prophet Tenskwatawa stood and encouraged his warriors during the Battle of Tippecanoe.