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

Hidden on the 7th floor of a historic building, this Cajun spot features wall-to-wall bottles of hot sauce.

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

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

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

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

One of the world's earliest skyscrapers.

This mausoleum is the final resting place of one of St. Louis's richest and most tragic families.

Giant works of art interspersed throughout meadows and woodlands offer a new discovery at every turn.

One man's unrequited love stands in a glass box forever.

University City's quirkiest resident lives in a park named after its first.

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

A museum dedicated to man's boldest venture.

A chessmaster's dream destination.

This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.

A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

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

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

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

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

A large circus museum with summer performances.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.