Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

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

Curious rock formations in a tiny Kansas state park.

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

Also known as the Cathedral of the Plains, this church holds the distinction of being one of the "8 Wonders of Kansas."

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

Massive still life just off the highway in Kansas.

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

This 16th-century monastery was founded to cloister the daughters of wealthy local families.

Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.

It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.

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

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

A cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

A replica that won't float away.

This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.