This unassuming riverbank is Missouri’s first designated site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.

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

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

A plaque on the side of a parking garage marks the burial place of a great Ottawa chief.

An abandoned meat mecca now serves as an excellent locale for urban exploration.

Patrick Dougherty's fantastic living tree sculptures, mind-blowing but temporary.

A big museum full of little worlds.

Man-made geyser that rises to the exact height of the Gateway Arch.

This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.

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

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.

The world's largest collection of porcelain "veilleuses-theiere," or night light teapots, includes four that belonged to Napoleon.

This open air cathedral invites all faiths to worship under the only roof big enough to fit them all: the sky.

Part of a worldwide art project, this mysterious semicircle of concrete shapes holds the pieces of a larger story.

This "little gallery in the middle of nowhere" is housed in a 170-year-old horse barn in the Missouri Ozarks.

Erosion and time have created a naturally-formed water park.

Symbolic attempt to overcome the issues of life.

In the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks at 1,772 feet above sea level, Taum Sauk Mountain is the highest (and possibly oldest) peak in Missouri.

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

A museum dedicated to man's boldest venture.

The world's largest man-made underground caverns offer unparalleled underwater wonders.

Kentucky's anomalous peninsula projecting into the Mississippi River, site of legendary earthquakes and local feuds.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.