Ashland, Nebraska
Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum
Once a slice of Cold War-era military history, this museum is finding its future in the stars.
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Ashland, Nebraska
Once a slice of Cold War-era military history, this museum is finding its future in the stars.
Salina, Kansas
Salina's eye-catching giant mural depicting children at play is painted atop a century-old mill elevator.
Newton, Kansas
This vivid painted ceramic sculpture evokes the expansiveness of the prairie sky.
Lucas, Kansas
Kansas's Grassroots Art Capital welcomes visitors to Lucas through its very own World's Largest Thing.
Chanute, Kansas
A Google software engineer's Easter egg led to what may be the world's most unusual saved screenshot.
Lucas, Kansas
This artsy public restroom is shaped like a giant john.
West Mineral, Kansas
The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.
Wilson, Kansas
A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.
Lucas, Kansas
Self-built house and sculpture park where the creator can still be seen in a glass coffin.
Lucas, Kansas
A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.
Carthage, Texas
The only international border marker within the United States.
Commerce, Oklahoma
The modest childhood home where the baseball legend and Yankees star learned to hit from both sides of the plate.
Arcadia, Oklahoma
This unusually circular centenarian barn became a Route 66 icon.
Arcadia, Oklahoma
Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.
Amana, Iowa
What was once a communal kitchen now serves heaping portions of hearty German fare.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.
Mars, Pennsylvania
Could it have picked a better place to land?
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.
Latrobe, Pennsylvania
A larger-than-life statue of America's favorite sundae marks the place it was invented.
Castle Shannon, Pennsylvania
The pop art icon's gravesite is broadcast 24 hours a day on his museum's website.
Latrobe, Pennsylvania
The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
One of the steepest streets in the United States makes an intriguing challenge for cyclists.
Wexford, Pennsylvania
A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.