This tiny old water tower once doubled as a makeshift jail.

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

Topeka has its own great wall, and it's covered in colorful images from the city's history.

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

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

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.

This Italianate Villa-style castle is pretty to look at, just keep off the private property.

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.

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

Curious rock formations in a tiny Kansas state park.

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

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

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

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

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

Massive still life just off the highway in Kansas.

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

One of the Eight Wonders of Kansas and the first official National Natural Monument these stark formations look like nature's Stonehenge.

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.