Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a 70-foot-long chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Over a million artifacts fill this factory-turned-museum that explores the history of American windmill production.

This old-school soda shop is the home of the Tin Roof Sundae, a concoction dripping in chocolate, marshmallow, and peanuts.

Nebraska’s longest-running summer theater is a musical tribute to cowboy culture.

A fascinating collection of art made from petrified wood and fossils by two octogenarian twin brothers.

Bronze statue marks the spinach capital of the world.

There are no bodies inside these stone coffins. And there never were.

A large stone map of Arkansas awaits visitors to its highest point.

In addition to fishing and camping, this spot in Nebraska’s Sandhills is one of the world’s darkest places.

Once a slice of Cold War-era military history, this museum is finding its future in the star.

A vineyard devoted entirely to an unexplored flavor frontier.

The crumbling remains of the first Black-owned and operated hospital in Kansas City.

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

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

You can dig up your own crystals in the quartz capital of the world.

Home to a seasonal waterfall and swimming hole in the Ouachita Mountains.

Together they left this world, and together they shall remain for all eternity.

This quirky Arkansas wax museum does not shy away from the macabre and the grotesque.

Everything in this miniature world was handmade from matches, paperclips, wires, tin cans, and other everyday objects.

The remains of the first public diamond mine in Arkansas.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

A restored schoolhouse was once a vital part of the Black mill workers community in Arkansas.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.