Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.

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

This spot in St. Louis, marked with a simple sign, has seen more pro baseball than just about anywhere else in the world.

Built in 1869, this now-retired structure looks more like a medieval fortress than a county lock-up.

In the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks at 1,772 feet above sea level, Taum Sauk Mountain is the highest (and possibly oldest) peak in Missouri.

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

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

The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.

The only pig museum in the U.S. holds one of the world's largest collections of pig items.

This "little gallery in the middle of nowhere" is housed in a 170-year-old horse barn in the Missouri Ozarks.

A subterranean haunt where wine and homemade biscottis are always on the menu.

400 million-year old limestone caverns nestled in the Ozarks served as shelter and a hideout for cultures throughout North American history.

Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.

The world's largest man-made underground caverns offer unparalleled underwater wonders.

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

The Magic House provides a beautiful and creative environment for curious youngsters to get their knowledge on.

Oversized statues are just the tip of this nostalgic Americana roadside attraction.

This wooded grove of beautiful hand-built stone grottos is a hidden gem within a shuttered Franciscan monastery.

Who said a biker bar is no place for a taxidermy squirrel collection?

Entombed in this strange, white stone hill are the deadly remains of radioactive weapons production.

After miraculously surviving a giant flood, the 19th-century nut tree and its offspring are protected with their own tiny park.

A sculpture of a giant man escaping from the depths of the Earth.

This museum located in the "Corn Cob Pipe Capital of the World," chronicles the history of cob pipe.

This lagomorph-obsessed Route 66 emporium is home to a giant jackrabbit that sits in a bunny graveyard.