The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

A diverse, expansive nature preserve in northeastern Kansas.

A cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.

The first home of the doomed aviator Amelia Earhart.

The oldest bar in Missouri is hidden within a limestone brewery cellar more than 50 feet underground.

Lone survivor from Custer's Last Stand forever preserved.

A rainbow-colored house promotes LGBTQ rights across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church.

Topeka has its own great wall, and it's covered in colorful images from the city's history.

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.

An oil baron's wild paradise and the winner of an ill-fated air race.