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Nebraska Oddities

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Hebron, Nebraska

A 32-foot swing built with irrigation equipment waits in Hebron’s park.

Hastings, Nebraska

Life-size Sasquatch figures and decades of cryptid lore fill a Hastings museum.

Alliance, Nebraska

A full-scale Stonehenge made from gray-painted cars rises from a Nebraska field.

Plainview, Nebraska

Thousands of clown dolls crowd a small-town museum in Plainview.

Taylor, Nebraska

More than 120 painted plywood people inhabit this small Sandhills town.

Crawford, Nebraska

Wind and erosion have made a Nebraska badlands landscape look like a field of stone mushrooms.

Royal, Nebraska

Ancient rhinos and horses still lie where volcanic ash buried a prehistoric waterhole.

Kearney, Nebraska

A museum about westward travel hangs directly above Interstate 80.

Scotia, Nebraska

A guided walk leads into honeycombed chalk tunnels beneath a Nebraska hill.

Monowi, Nebraska

An incorporated Nebraska town with one resident, one tavern, and its own library.