A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.

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

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.

An unexpected but incredible collection of wildlife dioramas spanning rainforests, swamps, forests, and plains.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

The oldest purpose-built cinema still in operation also houses a museum of movie memorabilia.

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

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

The oldest bar in Missouri is hidden within a limestone brewery cellar more than 50 feet underground.

Step back in time at this 1950s display home, built to showcase once cutting-edge electric amenities.

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

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

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.

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

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

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

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

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

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

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