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

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

An obelisk commemorating Lincoln's role in connecting the coasts.

The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

Another in a long tradition of legends regarding infernal seats.

A college in rural Kansas founded to prepare the country for an impending World War III.

Cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.

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.

A rainbow-colored house promotes LGBTQ rights across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church.

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

The man who was president for only one day and spent most of it asleep.

This Kansas City studio was home to Walt Disney's first animation business.

The two-cell building in Nebraska was briefly owned by a teenage boy and then a Hollywood dummy.

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