Once the smallest park in the national system.

A Kansas nature preserve protecting the plants and animals that once stretched across central North America.

An ornate Art Deco tile mosaic representing Nebraskan life, both modern and prehistoric.

At this leafy estate, one man’s passion for trees grew into Arbor Day.

This was the first homestead registered after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law.

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

A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

This massive oak tree has ties to the first native tribes of the region and the founders of Texas.

Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.

This simple frog painting created by musician Daniel Johnston embodies the spirit of Austin.

The upstairs reading room is packed with millions of rare books, literary manuscripts, and historical treasures.

A memorial dedicated to the Tejano superstar Selena Quintanilla-Pérez.

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

One of the only Florida forts to remain in the hands of the Union all through the Civil War still stands as a historic stronghold.

Larger-than-life cut-out murals of James Dean and Elizabeth Taylor, dedicated to their 1956 film ‘Giant.’

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

After 97 years of constant vigilance from the dome of the Texas State Capitol, the original Goddess of Liberty retired to a life of climate-controlled leisure.

$10,000 won in a poker game in 1884 allowed James Draughon to build this intriguing home.

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

These massive mitts are made of 30 tons of devotional bronze.

The only Leonardo Da Vinci painting in the Western Hemisphere.

This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.