The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.

Home of mutant livestock.

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.

This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.

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

This little gem of a museum is a hidden jewel filled with prehistoric treasures.

An ornate Art Deco tile mosaic representing Nebraskan life, both modern and prehistoric.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

One of the oldest, tallest, and most haunted lighthouses in America.

Used as a military post in three different engagements, this fort has remained incomplete and unfired upon for nearly 200 years.

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

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

A Mormon place of exile in Missouri.

One of America's first planned communities is preserved in a state park.

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

Explore the cabin where the famed abolitionist once lived and the site where he fought the Battle of Osawatomie.

A tiny racehorse graveyard in the middle of a quiet Kansas City suburb.

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

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

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

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

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.