An antique Beechcraft airplane serves as a giant windsock for people driving through the blustery open country of eastern Wyoming.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

Yes, this monument is aware that it is about 20 miles away from the actual center of the United States.

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

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 highest point in Iowa, while not that impressive to mountain states, has earned its own monuments.

A giant pair of thick black glasses mark the tragic demise of a trio of rock and roll legends.

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.

This lagomorph-obsessed Route 66 emporium is home to a giant jackrabbit that sits in a bunny graveyard.

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

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