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

The modest childhood home where the baseball legend and Yankees star learned to hit from both sides of the plate.

This small town bank is very aware of its name thank you very much.

A version of this picturesque mill has existed since the 1800s.

Often referred to as the largest spring in America.

The iconic remains of the original Academic Hall that burned down in 1892.

This museum features the original car used on the Beverly Hillbillies sitcom.

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

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.

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

A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.

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

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

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

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

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

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.

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

400 million-year old limestone caverns nestled in the Ozarks served as shelter and a hideout for cultures throughout North American history.

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

An adorably sweet display of sculpted Precious Moments figurines.

A small museum dedicated to the whimsical tool that turns sugar cookies into works of art.