360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

Homestead Cemetery hold the remains of the United States' first known professional tattoo artists.

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

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

The headquarters of the prestigious World Food Prize celebrates the heroes in the fight against hunger, has no cafeteria.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

The world's largest Holstein cow.

A true roadside icon standing on the same plains that the herds once roamed.

Three legendary, living albino buffalo roaming their pastures for all to see.

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

Thousands of majestic trumpeter swans fill this park, sounding distinctly like a certain brass instrument.

Minnesota's highest point is a scenic vista marked by a plaque and armies of mosquitoes.

This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.