A collection of soda memorabilia that spans decades.

The obelisk meant to mark the founding father's grave at Monticello is actually on the University of Missouri campus.

Outside the Missouri Quilt Museum, this large spool has more than one million yards of thread—and counting.

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

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

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

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

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.

Before founding the American Red Cross, Clara Barton had a tremendous humanitarian impact by locating thousands of missing soldiers.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

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

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A blues musician so talented that people said he must have traded his soul to the devil was born in this house.

Where a brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel, and a recluse met one Saturday and changed their lives forever.

The oldest (maybe) swimming pool in Iceland is a stunning oasis built into the side of a lush hill.

An eponymous directional signpost erected by the first president of the United States.

This 6th-century church honors St. Tudno, the patron saint of Llandudno.

A ship that lived many lives under many names is now known merely as the "Ghost Ship."

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

Where the author wrote her beloved "Little House" books.

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

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