What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

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

The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

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.

The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.

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

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

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

The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

Curious cave that stays a cool 56 degrees all year long.

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

This simple home was the beginning of a long journey for the iconic Western film star.

One of corporate America's best-kept secrets is also one of the most publicly displayed.

The small first-floor apartment where the author wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning book 'Gone with the Wind.'

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

Religious statues built because of one man's bargain with God fill this peaceful sculpture garden.

This collection of neon icons is preserving Arizona's history, one sign at a time.