Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.

Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

The Old Courthouse takes visitors on a captivating trip through St. Louis' timeline.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

A floating museum that was sunk by a flood and left to rot in the tides.

A chessmaster's dream destination.

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

This is not your typical jungle gym.

Kentucky's anomalous peninsula projecting into the Mississippi River, site of legendary earthquakes and local feuds.

The hometown of Popeye's creator is littered with a growing collection of granite cartoon characters.

Now nearly abandoned, Kaskaskia was once the capital of Illinois and one of the most important towns on the upper Mississippi.

This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.

This 40-foot fowl marks the so-called "wild goose capital of the world."

The man who was president for only one day and spent most of it asleep.

A geological oddity formed by two rivers carving out a mass of limestone on both sides.

Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.

Tucked away on an empty wooded lot in suburban Oklahoma City lie the remnants of an abandoned circus camp.

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

A funhouse dummy that turned out to be a real life mummy, Elmer McCurdy is an urban legend come true.

The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.

Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.