The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.

The oldest bar in Missouri is hidden within a limestone brewery cellar more than 50 feet underground.

The ruins of a 19th century shelter run by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

Why settle for barbecue chips when you can get actual barbecue?

An abandoned concrete jungle surrounded by a lush park.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

Undone by Prohibition, this abandoned brewery-turned-flour mill is now ready for its third act.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.