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

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

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

This mansion was made famous by its colorful cast of owners and location along the Sante Fe Trail.

A magnificent church designed by world-renowned architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

One of America's first planned communities is preserved in a state park.

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.

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

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.

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.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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