Two Ming Dynasty lion statues guard the entrance to the journalism school.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

This spot in St. Louis, marked with a simple sign, has seen more pro baseball than just about anywhere else in the world.

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

One of few surviving standpipe water towers in the U.S.

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

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

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

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

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

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

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