Nebraska
Find Nebraska travel tips, stories, field reports and maps for unusual tourist attractions and landmarks.
Trunkations
Golden Spike Tower Opens
North Platte - Back in 1999, North Platte, Nebraska, dreamed up a bold plan to attract visitors. They would capitalize on their status as home of the world’s largest railroad yards by erecting a giant tower shaped like a golden spike from which railroad buffs could observe the train action in the yards. Full story
Featured Attractions
Strategic Air and Space Museum
Ashland, Nebraska
The former Strategic Air Command Museum has replaced bombs and white-knuckle brinksmanship with a kinder, gentler world of aircraft gazing.
Birthplace of Kool-Aid
Hastings, Nebraska
Visit the town where the magic powder was invented and stand in the mighty footprints of Kool-Aid Man.
World's Largest Ball of Stamps
Omaha, Nebraska
In the philamatic museum, this unique achievement was assembled by sticky fingers and tongues of Boys Town.
Great Platte River Road Archway Monument
Kearney, Nebraska
Log arch stretches across I-80 and contains an oddly overblown, multi-million-dollar, multi-media extravaganza about traveling through Nebraska.
Carhenge
Alliance, Nebraska
The Druids got nowhere near the prairie of the Nebraska panhandle, but they would've felt at home here, at a Stonehenge replica made of junked cars.
Fall of Saigon, Heartland Museum of Military Vehicles
Lexington, Nebraska
Military might, along with a replica of a hasty retreat from Saigon, draws passersby off the interstate.
Museum of the Fur Trade
Chadron, Nebraska
Collection of frontier artifacts and trappings of an Old Economy.
Landmarks and Oddities List
Vacation Favorites
Notable places we've visited or heard about.
- Alda: Brothers Pinned Together By An Arrow
- Alliance: Carhenge [tips]
- Ashland: Strategic Air and Space Museum [tips]
- Chadron: Museum of the Fur Trade
- Deweese: Dodger the Basset Hound
- Eli: Petrified Wood tombstones [tips]
- Gothenburg: Sod House Museum [tips]
- Hastings: Kool-Aid Museum, the actual birthplace, and footprints of Kool-Aid Man [tips]
- Hastings: Andy the Footless Goose
- Kearney: Great Platte River Road Archway Monument [tips]
- Kimball: Missile Center USA [tips]
- < li>Lexington: Fall of Saigon Recreation [tips]
- Milford: World's Largest Covered Wagon [tips]
- Minden: Harold Warp's Pioneer Village
- North Platte: Fort Cody Trading Post [tips]
- Ogallala: Petrified Wood art [tips]
- Ogallala: UFO Water Tower [tips]
- Omaha: World's Largest Ball of Stamps
- Omaha: World's Largest Coffee Pot [tips]
- Paxton: Ole's Big Game Lounge [tips]
- Ponca Hills: Dine While Raccoons Scavenge [tips]
- Seward: World's Largest Time Capsule
- Waterloo: Sleep in a Union Pacific Caboose [tips]
