The collection is housed in an exquisite mansion that makes you feel like you've been transported to an Italian villa.

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

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

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

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.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

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

A home designed to be on the cutting edge of comfortable, low-cost living.

An outsider art studio that created a piece of work so popular they had to turn mainstream.

An extravagant western hotel where every floor is the "ground floor."

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

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

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

A mysterious light of unknown origin on the backroads of Missouri.