Once a giant oak that served as the region's post office.

A Kansas nature preserve protecting the plants and animals that once stretched across central North America.

A park to honor all U.S. Armed Forces veterans, and Emporia's status as the founding city of Veterans Day.

This stadium was the home of the first organized night baseball game.

Don't pass Gas, stop and enjoy it.

Before he was the "Big Train," baseball's greatest pitcher was the original "Humboldt Thunderbolt."

This historical marker is all that remains of Octagon City, Kansas, a failed vegetarian utopia.

This museum houses artifacts from American adventurers and filmmakers Martin and Osa Johnson.

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.

Lone survivor from Custer's Last Stand forever preserved.

Journey up the capitol building's cupola for an amazing view of Topeka.

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

The face of the famed flier in a hillside in her hometown.

The first home of the doomed aviatrix Amelia Earhart.

The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.

The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.

This quaint museum lets you take a ride on its antique carousels.

Step back in time at this 1950s display home, built to showcase once cutting-edge electric amenities.

A tiny racehorse graveyard in the middle of a quiet Kansas City suburb.

This sacred space and gathering spot for the Wyandot Nation has been the surrounded by controversy and confusion.

This Italianate Villa-style castle is pretty to look at, just keep off the private property.

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

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.