A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

More than 150 working bells from churches and one-room-schoolhouses across the Great Plains are assembled in one man's yard.

The abandoned remnants of a little sanctuary for world peace that fell into disrepair.

A lifetime's accumulation of bric-a-brac and kitsch.

Whimsical cartoon cars suspended on posts soar over an automotive shop.

Home to the world's largest quilt collection dating from the 1600s through today.

This simple stone monument honors a 19th-century tragedy.

This once rural mansion now sits in the heart of the city.

This Nebraska museum was once the smallest courthouse in America.

Visitors to this museum will uncover a whimsical collection of marbles from across time.

A Winnebago Tribe collection featuring arrowheads, artwork, and a mysterious rock carving.

Over 600 acres of idyllic open grassland honor Nebraska’s georgic storyteller.

This Nebraska town wants to double its population with plywood cut-outs of townsfolk.

An Englishman loses his scalp to a Cheyenne warrior and lives to donate it to a library.

Storage units with a wartime past.

Underneath downtown Lincoln resides a network of caves that was also the city's first brewery.

This was the first homestead registered after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law.

Four ionic columns from the Treasury Department building ended up in a park in Nebraska.

America's largest man-made forest was planted in an effort to bring back the past.

A rancher expanding a natural spring for his cattle came up with bones – lots and lots of them.

When an ancient supervolcano erupted, some of Nebraska's prehistoric animals were forever preserved in ash.

An ornate Art Deco tile mosaic representing Nebraskan life, both modern and prehistoric.

These experimental weapons brought World War II to Nebraska as well as 26 other U.S. states.

Site of the 1879 Cheyenne Outbreak and the site where famed Sioux chief Crazy Horse met his fate.