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

A small town garden is dedicated to a psychic dog with the most soulful eyes.

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

This Italianate Villa-style castle is pretty to look at, just keep off the private property.

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

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

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

This majestic tree has survived 400 years of storms, droughts, and floods, and is a beloved natural landmark 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.

Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.

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

The only pig museum in the U.S. holds one of the world's largest collections of pig items.

This Lady Liberty is the oldest replica of its kind outside the state of New York.

This historic cliffside mansion uses a natural cave for air conditioning.

The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.

This ostentatious Italianate palace of an Oklahoma billionaire is filled with several themed mini-museums.

The only remaining Cold War–era Minuteman II missile control center in Missouri.

Over 600 vacuum cleaners stack the shelves of what may be the cleanest museum in America.

This small Arkansas town once had a close encounter with the Beatles, and are determined never to let anyone forget that. Ever.

Despite what scientists think, the town still says this is an extraterrestrial rock.

Local legend says that someone is buried in the trunk.

The strange and snarky traditions of the lumber industry's fraternal order began with five men waiting for a train here in Arkansas.

Life-size figures portray depot attendants, train crew, and passengers frozen in time at the oldest railroad station in Arkansas.

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