Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

This historic church is named for abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher and the ruse to arm his fellow abolitionists.

A unique blue and yellow phone booth in America's "Little Sweden."

Metal sculpture folk art lining the Kansas Highway.

A college in rural Kansas founded to prepare the country for an impending World War III.

Lone survivor from Custer's Last Stand forever preserved.

A museum where visitors can learn about greyhounds and (more importantly) pet them.

The world’s largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian aircraft got its start in a poultry building.

See the motorcycles that launched the stuntman to fame and the gear that saved his life.

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.

A house turned museum is the real-life "home" of the fictional main character of The Wizard of Oz.

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

A Mormon place of exile in Missouri.

An adorably sweet display of sculpted Precious Moments figurines.

The first rural cemetery west of the Mississippi is home to the elaborate tombs of St. Louis' local beer barons.

A small museum dedicated to the whimsical tool that turns sugar cookies into works of art.

The ruins of a 19th century shelter run by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

An unexpected but incredible collection of wildlife dioramas spanning rainforests, swamps, forests, and plains.

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

Ghost stories surrounded this “castle,” the only structure from a huge mansion that was never built.

There is an art, a science, and certainly a responsibility to occupying The Big Red Chair, and this is where it's learned.

An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.

An unlikely beach paradise of giant sand dunes lies between two lakes just a few minutes from Michigan's cherry country.