A Kansas grassroots sculptor decorates the local roadways with his sculptures made from found objects.

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

A small burial plot formerly stranded in the middle of a road.

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

A diverse, expansive nature preserve in northeastern Kansas.

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

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

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

This wooded grove of beautiful hand-built stone grottos is a hidden gem within a shuttered Franciscan monastery.

The only pig museum in the U.S. holds one of the world's largest collections of pig items.

This majestic tree has survived 400 years of storms, droughts, and floods, and is a beloved natural landmark in Missouri.

A small town garden is dedicated to a psychic dog with the most soulful eyes.

A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.

A chessmaster's dream destination.

A big museum full of little worlds.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

The two writers famously didn't come to blows over the Oxford comma.

A dollhouse full of taxidermy rodents, each one handcrafted and given a sordid past.

Rumored to have tormented a family in the late 1960s, this toy now resides in a quiet little oddities shop.

A nuclear bunker built to shelter the politicians and important people of Scotland in case of nuclear attack.

One man spent 10 years building a spectacular section of road because no one else would.

Thanks to both terrific preservation and historic vandalism this ancient site is known as the "Heart of Neolithic Orkney."

The mystery of this small, brick pond eluded its possibly only investigator until his death.

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