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A car buried nose-down and painted grey, beside metal animal sculptures in dry grass
On the Road

Cars Standing Still on the Nebraska Prairie

North of Alliance, a man rebuilt an ancient monument out of old sedans, and the small town that kept it learned to live with wonder.
Grain elevators above a small-town street, with a visitor centre in a former filling station
On the Road

The Middle of the Country Is a Field in Lebanon

In north-central Kansas, a small town sits at the exact midpoint of the forty-eight states.
A wooded valley town below badlands bluffs, a log cabin among the trees
History

Medora, at the Edge of the Badlands

A town of barely a hundred in the North Dakota badlands, where the frontier is re-enacted every summer and the wind never stops.
A large green brontosaurus sculpture beside signs reading Wall Drug Dinosaur
On the Road

The Drugstore That Gave Away Free Ice Water

A pharmacist's wife sent him out to paint signs on the prairie, and a dying town on the edge of the Badlands became a destination.