Once a lonely sentinel on the edge of the Great Plains, this rebuilt trading fort offers a glimpse of life on the Santa Fe Trail.

One of the stops along the fateful journey of the Donner Party.

The famous greeting card maker owns a collection of paintings by the famed surrealist.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

The mysterious white squirrels of this Illinois city are treated like sacred cows.

This mansion was made famous by its colorful cast of owners and location along the Sante Fe Trail.

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

Why settle for barbecue chips when you can get actual barbecue?

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

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

Exploring the past, present, and future of blues music.

The largest burial mound in the United States holds the remains of prehistoric West Virginians.

The site of an ancient Mississippian settlement that appears to have flourished during the 10th to 13th centuries.

Erosion and time have created a naturally-formed water park.

These pink granite water slides are the result of millions of years of erosion.

Some of the oldest exposed rock formations in the United States.

Who said a biker bar is no place for a taxidermy squirrel collection?

Giant works of art interspersed throughout meadows and woodlands offer a new discovery at every turn.

In a historic steel foundry east of the Mississippi River, thousands of wooden crates hold the architectural remnants of buildings long gone but not forgotten.

The world's longest known cave system.

The history of whiskey and all of its boozy glory, from Colonial days to modern American cocktail culture.

This site is home to ancient petroglyphs and pictographs dating back to 6,000 B.C.

This once-popular otherworldly landscape was formed by one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history.

Two tall rocks sit at the center of this site, once the home of a large Ancestral Puebloan community.