A chessmaster's dream destination.

The Magic House provides a beautiful and creative environment for curious youngsters to get their knowledge on.

Another in a long tradition of legends regarding infernal seats.

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

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

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

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

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

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

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

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

Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

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

The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.

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.

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

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

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

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.

This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.