This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

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

This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.

This massive marble memorial was built bit by bit either out of devotion or spite, but at the expense of the surrounding town.

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

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

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

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

Also known as the Cathedral of the Plains, this church holds the distinction of being one of the "8 Wonders of Kansas."

These otherworldly limestone formations jut out from the Kansas prairie.

A statue high in a hill that represents how Buffalo Bill got his name.

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

Home to fossils and other specimens from the Western Interior Seaway.

The ruins of the northernmost pueblo in the Americas tell the story of a mixing of native cultures.

A whimsical monument marks the highest point in Kansas, not that you could tell by the looks of it.

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

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

See the home and the range on which "Home on the Range" was arranged.

A small-town limestone memorial to a local cartoonist and to Porky Pig, his most famous subject.

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

Curious rock formations in a tiny Kansas state park.

Salina's eye-catching giant mural depicting children at play is painted atop a century-old mill elevator.

A wonderful collection of all things Oz is nestled in the heart of Kansas.

This historic church is named for abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher and the ruse to arm his fellow abolitionists.