Places thankful4ever Wants to Go

Iconic figures in concrete and steel in the High Plains of Texas.

It's where the final scene of the beloved Tom Hanks movie was filmed.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

Creativity is far from extinct in Missouri, and this painted dinosaur is no exception!

An adorably sweet display of sculpted Precious Moments figurines.

A mysterious light of unknown origin on the backroads of Missouri.

This historic theater's pipe organ still accompanies silent films just like it did in 1929.

This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.

Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.

Take a dip in the world's largest mineral hot springs pool.

This interpretive path lets you get up close and personal with dinosaur bones.

This remote Colorado canyon is home to the second-largest collection of natural arches in the world.

Explore a wealth of fossils in one of the most prolific dig sites in North America.

At this multicultural hub, refugee chefs serve the foods they miss most from home.

Over 1.3 million confiscated wildlife products fill this macabre menagerie of illegal animal specimens.

This 19th century Sioux City candy company is the home of the Twin Bing, a historic, chocolate-covered treat.

After sitting abandoned for decades, this historic mine is now the only publicly accessible chalk room and pillar mine in North America.

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.