These otherworldly limestone formations jut out from the Kansas prairie.

This tiny old water tower once doubled as a makeshift jail.

Journey up the capitol building's cupola for an amazing view of Topeka.

The oldest purpose-built cinema still in operation also houses a museum of movie memorabilia.

This lesser-known geographic marker was the reference point for all surveys of the continent for 75 years.

Stories of sightless fish and ghostly cowboys are only a fraction of the legends surrounding this Kansas sinkhole.

A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.

This Italianate Villa-style castle is pretty to look at, just keep off the private property.

A whimsical monument marks the highest point in Kansas, not that you could tell by the looks of it.

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

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

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

This former Union fort commands a fine view of downtown Cape Girardeau and the Mississippi River.

This Kansas City studio was home to Walt Disney's first animation business.

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

When he found his hometown was no more, Lowell Davis decided to recreate a "new" ghost town from scratch.

The only remaining Cold War–era Minuteman II missile control center in Missouri.

The crumbling remains of the first Black-owned and operated hospital in Kansas City.

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

One of few surviving standpipe water towers in the U.S.

A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.

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

A chessmaster's dream destination.

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