A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

Current docking place of the SS United States, the fastest transatlantic ocean liner.

A winding district gerrymandered into the shape of a mantis.

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

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

The famous greeting card maker owns a collection of paintings by the famed surrealist.

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

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

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

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

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

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

According to the experts at the Guinness World's Record office, this is the longest candy counter in the world.

One car at a time please.

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

The first partially complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered here, forever changing the world's view of the ruling reptiles.

How this Pine Barrens hill got its name is uncertain, but on a good day the view from the fire tower is crystal clear.

The highest point in New Jersey is marked by a massive, if simply named, obelisk.

A playground inspired by differential calculus dangles from the ceiling of the Liberty Science Center.

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

Destructive children, start your engines.

World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.