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

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

Undone by Prohibition, this abandoned brewery-turned-flour mill is now ready for its third act.

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

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

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

This museum located in the "Corn Cob Pipe Capital of the World," chronicles the history of cob pipe.

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

This 40-foot fowl marks the so-called "wild goose capital of the world."

The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."

Destroyed by flood waters, prison now serves as a training ground for armed forces.

This pristinely abandoned filling station on the edge of a graveyard is populated solely by unsettling mannequins.

Curious cave that stays a cool 56 degrees all year long.

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

The modest, restored home of the legendary ragtime musician John William "Blind" Boone.

A geological oddity formed by two rivers carving out a mass of limestone on both sides.