You have to love a museum with a truly dedicated focus. A focus on Superman, for example.

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

A floating museum that was sunk by a flood and left to rot in the tides.

A cave 150 feet beneath Kansas City is the perfect climate for growing 10,000 delicate orchids.

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

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

A plaque on the side of a parking garage marks the burial place of a great Ottawa chief.

This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.

This former Union fort commands a fine view of downtown Cape Girardeau and the Mississippi River.

This mausoleum is the final resting place of one of St. Louis's richest and most tragic families.

One of the world's earliest skyscrapers.

Giant works of art interspersed throughout meadows and woodlands offer a new discovery at every turn.

The iconic remains of the original Academic Hall that burned down in 1892.

This 1854 courthouse along the Mississippi River has a storied history.

The modest, restored home of the legendary ragtime musician John William "Blind" Boone.

During the 19th-century, this park was a vital trading fort.

A flat slab of stone perched hundreds of feet above the Gasconade River in the northern Ozark mountains.

After miraculously surviving a giant flood, the 19th-century nut tree and its offspring are protected with their own tiny park.

This mansion was made famous by its colorful cast of owners and location along the Sante Fe Trail.

This museum located in the "Corn Cob Pipe Capital of the World," chronicles the history of cob pipe.

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

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

A magnificent church designed by world-renowned architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.