This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

Ethereal alien hums and haunting whale songs emitting from...a giant sheet of vibrating metal?

On the side of Arkansas' Great River Road stand the remains of a forgotten World War II POW Camp.

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

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

This former Union fort commands a fine view of downtown Cape Girardeau and the Mississippi River.

Twice a year, this road is closed off to allow for the migration of thousands of snakes, reptiles and amphibians between cliffs and a swamp.

A subterranean haunt where wine and homemade biscottis are always on the menu.

Now nearly abandoned, Kaskaskia was once the capital of Illinois and one of the most important towns on the upper Mississippi.

University City's quirkiest resident lives in a park named after its first.

A big museum full of little worlds.

In a historic steel foundry east of the Mississippi River, thousands of wooden crates hold the architectural remnants of buildings long gone but not forgotten.

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

An abandoned factory along the Mississippi coated by a giant mural.

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

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

A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.

Though it's thrived abroad, this forgotten Dunkin' rival has just one store left in the States.

A mythical bird etched into the face of a rock doubles as the mascot for a nearby school.

First known as the "Sample House," this construction mash-up was meant to be a living catalogue of building styles.

This rare female version of the Muffler Man has its clothes removed each summer to signal the start of pool season.

The world's third-largest scale model of the planets.

A massive bur oak tree believed to be some 500 years old is the centerpiece of this quiet urban greenspace.

The remnants of Peoria's proud baseball past stand slightly abandoned, but not forgotten.