One of the stops along the fateful journey of the Donner Party.

A Jurassic artscape composed of transmission casings and other mechanical parts.

Created by Catalan artist Joan Miró in 1978 and made up of 350,000 tiles, this mural is the only large-scale glass mosaic the artist ever created.

A local shop filled with handcrafted art and funky home furnishings, vintage, and antiques.

Once an ancient sea, this landscape of rocky ravines is filled with the fossils of ancient marine life.

This century-old painting of a portly 10-foot-tall man spent years hidden behind plaster.

This mid-19th-century dugout was once home to a Swedish family as they erected their homestead.

The oldest house in Lindsborg, Kansas, includes some fascinating inscriptions.

This three-dimensional brick mural is the longest of its kind in the United States.

This historic church is named for abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher and the ruse to arm his fellow abolitionists.

Homestead Cemetery hold the remains of the United States' first known professional tattoo artists.

The face of the famed flier in a hillside in her hometown.

A mysterious local has been dressing the child's grave for decades.

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

A statue high in a hill that represents how Buffalo Bill got his name.

This 41,000-acre wetland complex is the largest marsh in the interior of the United States.

These otherworldly limestone formations jut out from the Kansas prairie.

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

A whimsical monument marks the highest point in Kansas, not that you could tell by the looks of it.

A rainbow-colored house promotes LGBTQ rights across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church.

A landscape of massive spherical boulders are the main attraction in this Kansas State Park.

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

Self-built house and sculpture park where the creator can still be seen in a glass coffin.

The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.