An abandoned desert hamlet swallowed up by sand.

A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."

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

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

This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.

A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.

This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.

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

Another in a long tradition of legends regarding infernal seats.

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

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

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.

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

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

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

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

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

Journey up the capitol building's cupola for an amazing view of Topeka.

This 41,000-acre wetland complex is the largest marsh in the interior of the United States.

This massive marble memorial was built bit by bit either out of devotion or spite, but at the expense of the surrounding town.

A statue high in a hill that represents how Buffalo Bill got his name.

A whimsical monument marks the highest point in Kansas, not that you could tell by the looks of it.

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.