Kansas Critters (Score 1)

Someday when you've been banished to the most mundane drive in the USA (I-70 through western Kansas and eastern Colorado), make a stop in Hays, KS, and visit the Sternberg Museum of Natural History. They have an incredible collection of fossils (many from the same Kansas regions which produced the marine fossils being auctioned off from Gove, Logan counties) and some robotic big boys (like a reactionary T-Rex) to keep the kids happy. http://www.fhsu.edu/sternberg/ You can also check out the world famous "fish-in-a-fish" exhibit, very cool stuff. For an hour or two, you'll completely forget how hideous the rest of your 4 1/2 drive to KC or Denver is looking.