Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

This replica small town lets visitors take a stroll through the story of progress in the U.S. via thousands of Americana artifacts.

A museum documents the development of the invention that tamed the Wild West.

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

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

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

Curious rock formations in a tiny Kansas state park.

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

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.