This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.

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

This majestic tree has survived 400 years of storms, droughts, and floods, and is a beloved natural landmark in Missouri.

The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.

The only pig museum in the U.S. holds one of the world's largest collections of pig items.

This small town bank is very aware of its name thank you very much.

Over 600 vacuum cleaners stack the shelves of what may be the cleanest museum in America.

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

This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.

The iconic remains of the original Academic Hall that burned down in 1892.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

This Kansas City studio was home to Walt Disney's first animation business.

This giant green head remembers one of America's jazz giants.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.

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

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

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

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

An abandoned concrete jungle surrounded by a lush park.

The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.

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