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.

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

Nestled in Onondaga State Park, over 100 canoes carefully stacked in a replica of the famous standing stones.

The hometown of Popeye's creator is littered with a growing collection of granite cartoon characters.

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

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

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

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

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

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

The Old Courthouse takes visitors on a captivating trip through St. Louis' timeline.

This whimsical park encourages its visitors and wildlife to roam on and around the various works of art.

A 30-year-old Sycamore tree grown from a seed taken to the moon and back.

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

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

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

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

Famous church recognized for both its unique design and disciplined monks that live according to the Benedictine discipline.

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

A big museum full of little worlds.

What's a diner from the 1939 World's Fair doing in a remote Utah mountain town?

In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.