The oldest purpose-built cinema still in operation also houses a museum of movie memorabilia.

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

A college in rural Kansas founded to prepare the country for an impending World War III.

This artsy public restroom is shaped like a giant john.

The world’s largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian aircraft got its start in a poultry building.

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

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

A mysterious and terrifying public art goblin seemingly meant to inspire local legend.

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.

These elevated trucks were put in place as a middle finger to The Man, but are now considered folk art.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

It's easy to forget what century it is as you wander this rustic homestead.

Inside this casino, visitors are treated to slot machines and a rare German Christmas pyramid.

The home of a formerly enslaved man who went on to become a prospector, entrepreneur, and activist for Black rights.

The remnants of the base where US Army troops learned how to fight in extreme conditions.

An innovative local park built from an abandoned sewage treatment plant.

Once a lonely sentinel on the edge of the Great Plains, this rebuilt trading fort offers a glimpse of life on the Santa Fe Trail.

A coal fire has been burning underground here since 1896.

The giant stump of the once towering cottonwood where Ute people held tribal meetings.

This three-mile concrete levee in Pueblo, Colorado was transformed into the world’s longest painting.

The remains of a World War II-era Japanese American internment camp dot a windswept Colorado hill.

Toss a Frisbee through the ruins of this Colorado gold mining town.