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Leila's Hair Museum

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

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Independence Temple

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

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Bird's Botanicals

A cave 150 feet beneath Kansas City is the perfect climate for growing 10,000 delicate orchids.

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Kessler Park Reservoir

An abandoned concrete jungle surrounded by a lush park.

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SubTropolis

The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.

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Charlie Parker Memorial

This giant green head remembers one of America's jazz giants.

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Kansas City Workhouse

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

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