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

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

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

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

A mysterious and terrifying public art goblin seemingly meant to inspire local legend.

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

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

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

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

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

Now containing the bones of the actual conquistador, instead of someone else.

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.

The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.

This crumbling medieval basilica once attracted pilgrims by the thousands to collect a miraculous dust that formed above the saint's tomb.

Remnants of successive wars and Muslim colonialism in the 11th century.

A charming beach town in Turkey captures all the colors of the rainbow.

Carvings in Turkey's Marble Road may have directed ancient Romans to a hidden brothel.

Ancient serpentine sacrifice holder that has stood the test of time.

Over the centuries, this island paradise has done it all, from providing monks with ecclesiastical respite to sheltering an exiled Leon Trotsky.

The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

A sacred lake with thousands of sacred carp and a biblical history.

An ancient church on a tiny island covered in stone bible stories has controversially been turned into a museum.

Mausoleum and Holy Seat of Antiochus I of Commagene.

The largest Neolithic ruins in the world hide a notably clean prehistoric metropolis.