This pristinely abandoned filling station on the edge of a graveyard is populated solely by unsettling mannequins.

An abandoned factory along the Mississippi coated by a giant mural.

This historic cliffside mansion uses a natural cave for air conditioning.

Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.

Entombed in this strange, white stone hill are the deadly remains of radioactive weapons production.

A geological oddity formed by two rivers carving out a mass of limestone on both sides.

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

An abandoned concrete jungle surrounded by a lush park.

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

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

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

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

A cave 150 feet beneath Kansas City is the perfect climate for growing 10,000 delicate orchids.

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

After miraculously surviving a giant flood, the 19th-century nut tree and its offspring are protected with their own tiny park.

This wooded grove of beautiful hand-built stone grottos is a hidden gem within a shuttered Franciscan monastery.

Two Ming Dynasty lion statues guard the entrance to the journalism school.

This "little gallery in the middle of nowhere" is housed in a 170-year-old horse barn in the Missouri Ozarks.

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

The only remaining Cold War–era Minuteman II missile control center in Missouri.

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

This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.

A sculpture of a giant man escaping from the depths of the Earth.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.