Minneapolis, Kansas
Rock City
A landscape of massive spherical boulders are the main attraction in this Kansas State Park.
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Minneapolis, Kansas
A landscape of massive spherical boulders are the main attraction in this Kansas State Park.
Brookville, Kansas
Curious rock formations in a tiny Kansas state park.
Wilson, Kansas
This tiny old water tower once doubled as a makeshift jail.
Bartlesville, Oklahoma
A whimsical tower with a spiral staircase, inspired by the Space Age and the Möbius strip.
Bartlesville, Oklahoma
The only fully-realized skyscraper built by the famed American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.
Dora, Missouri
A version of this picturesque mill has existed since the 1800s.
Marshfield, Missouri
In Edwin Hubble's hometown, a scale model of the groundbreaking telescope that was named in his honor.
Springfield, Missouri
A phone booth that combines public art and climate change awareness.
Springfield, Missouri
Creativity is far from extinct in Missouri, and this painted dinosaur is no exception!
North, Arkansas
The warmest cave in the Ozarks features two seemingly bottomless lakes.
Lead Hill, Arkansas
Twenty-year effort to raise a castle using tools and techniques from the 13th century is now abandoned in the Arkansas woods.
Topeka, Kansas
A rainbow-colored house promotes LGBTQ rights across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church.
Topeka, Kansas
Journey up the capitol building's cupola for an amazing view of Topeka.
Topeka, Kansas
These elevated trucks were put in place as a middle finger to The Man, but are now considered folk art.
Sauget, Illinois
In a historic steel foundry east of the Mississippi River, thousands of wooden crates hold the architectural remnants of buildings long gone but not forgotten.
Elsah, Illinois
First known as the "Sample House," this construction mash-up was meant to be a living catalogue of building styles.
Quarry Township, Illinois
A blufftop prairie and limestone cliff with 30-mile views across two great rivers and prime bald eagle territory.
Chesterfield, Missouri
A sculpture of a giant man escaping from the depths of the Earth.
Columbia, Missouri
Curious cave that stays a cool 56 degrees all year long.
Arlington, Texas
A Prohibition-era casino once hidden as a palatial tea room.
Fort Worth, Texas
A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.
Mineral Wells, Texas
This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.
Mineral Wells, Texas
Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.
Grapevine, Texas
Fall through a crack in the seams of reality at this immersive art installation.