A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

This historic motel standing at the "crossroads of America" offers a radio in every room and was saved by local protesters.

An abandoned concrete jungle surrounded by a lush park.

A big museum full of little worlds.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

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

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

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 is not your typical jungle gym.

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

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

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

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

Once a bustling cotton factory, this early 20th-century building is now home to a thriving artspace.

This botanical garden has been nicknamed "Alabama's Little Corner of Greece."

Joe Minter is only doing the work of God in his yard, he says.

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

The longest non-mortared wall in the country is one man's tribute to his displaced Yuchi ancestor's five-year journey to her homeland.