This museum presents a dogged pursuit of 500 years of veterinary history.

A sculpture of a giant man escaping from the depths of the Earth.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

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

The oldest bar in Missouri is hidden within a limestone brewery cellar more than 50 feet underground.

This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.

This "little gallery in the middle of nowhere" is housed in a 170-year-old horse barn in the Missouri Ozarks.

A wax effigy of St. Valentine hides one of the saint's relics.

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

This art deco masterpiece was once a miracle spring mecca but is now simply a government office building.

Destroyed by flood waters, prison now serves as a training ground for armed forces.

The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.

A museum dedicated to man's boldest venture.

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

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

A big museum full of little worlds.

Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.

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

The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.

A mysterious light of unknown origin on the backroads of Missouri.

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

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

The world's largest man-made underground caverns offer unparalleled underwater wonders.