This lesser-known geographic marker was the reference point for all surveys of the continent for 75 years.

The holiday spirit lingers year-round in the "Christmas City of the High Plains."

The first "Hut" was actually a small brick building.

This Wild West attraction is probably more fiction than history, but that doesn't mean it's not awesome.

The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.

Stories of sightless fish and ghostly cowboys are only a fraction of the legends surrounding this Kansas sinkhole.

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

The quirky collection includes treasures like Elvis' underwear, Bob Barker's toothbrush, and hundreds of sock monkeys.

A house turned museum is the real-life "home" of the fictional main character of The Wizard of Oz.

During the 1990's nearly all of the world's LSD is thought to have come from the operators of the lab once located in this missile silo.

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

This "little gallery in the middle of nowhere" is housed in a 170-year-old horse barn in the Missouri Ozarks.

This small town bank is very aware of its name thank you very much.

Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

The creator of the Kewpie doll's former home has been turned into a museum celebrating her life and work.

A Mormon place of exile in Missouri.

The famous greeting card maker owns a collection of paintings by the famed surrealist.

When he found his hometown was no more, Lowell Davis decided to recreate a "new" ghost town from scratch.

This wooded grove of beautiful hand-built stone grottos is a hidden gem within a shuttered Franciscan monastery.

This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.

The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.

This historic motel standing at the "crossroads of America" offers a radio in every room and was saved by local protesters.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.