For a time this small Florida town of less than 1,000 residents was the national leader in dismemberment.

Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.

A mythical bird etched into the face of a rock doubles as the mascot for a nearby school.

This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.

An abandoned factory along the Mississippi coated by a giant mural.

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.

This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.

A big museum full of little worlds.

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

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

Who said a biker bar is no place for a taxidermy squirrel collection?

This wooded grove of beautiful hand-built stone grottos is a hidden gem within a shuttered Franciscan monastery.

400 million-year old limestone caverns nestled in the Ozarks served as shelter and a hideout for cultures throughout North American history.

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

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

Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.

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.

Erosion and time have created a naturally-formed water park.

Even with its slightly risible name this colossal cross is still able to inspire awe.

The lowest point in the state of Illinois, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.