The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

This vintage train once gave new meaning to “swimming upstream.”

The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."

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

Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.

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

A flat slab of stone perched hundreds of feet above the Gasconade River in the northern Ozark mountains.

A Mormon place of exile in Missouri.

This art deco masterpiece was once a miracle spring mecca but is now simply a government office building.

Another in a long tradition of legends regarding infernal seats.

The Old Courthouse takes visitors on a captivating trip through St. Louis' timeline.

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

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

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

Cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.

This mid-19th-century dugout was once home to a Swedish family as they erected their homestead.

A mysterious local has been dressing the child's grave for decades.

This sacred space and gathering spot for the Wyandot Nation has been the surrounded by controversy and confusion.

The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.

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.