In addition to fishing and camping, this spot in Nebraska’s Sandhills is one of the world’s darkest places.

Nebraska’s longest-running summer theater is a musical tribute to cowboy culture.

Once a slice of Cold War-era military history, this museum is finding its future in the star.

Haunted dolls, macabre artifacts, and more make up the collection of the “most haunted museum in the world.”

A eclectic collection of military memorabilia.

This was the first homestead registered after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law.

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

This replica small town lets visitors take a stroll through the story of progress in the U.S. via thousands of Americana artifacts.

This once rural mansion now sits in the heart of the city.

Underneath downtown Lincoln resides a network of caves that was also the city's first brewery.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

An underground wonderland in Iowa.

Piled high inside this warehouse and coffee shop are salvaged goods that span every corner of the globe.

This remote island in Iowa was abandoned after being devastated by flood.

The remains of a bustling turn-of-the-century park built to showcase the wonders of electricity.

An eclectic assortment of medieval architecture in a small Iowa town.

A mysteriously dark cemetery monument fuels stories and legends galore.

An old town theater converted into a celebration of the hobo legacy.

This art deco masterpiece was once a miracle spring mecca but is now simply a government office building.

This pristinely abandoned filling station on the edge of a graveyard is populated solely by unsettling mannequins.

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

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

A flat slab of stone perched hundreds of feet above the Gasconade River in the northern Ozark mountains.