The obelisk meant to mark the founding father's grave at Monticello is actually on the University of Missouri campus.

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

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

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

This 40-foot fowl marks the so-called "wild goose capital of the world."

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

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

In the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks at 1,772 feet above sea level, Taum Sauk Mountain is the highest (and possibly oldest) peak in Missouri.

400 million-year old limestone caverns nestled in the Ozarks served as shelter and a hideout for cultures throughout North American history.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

Peek through a transparent pyramid and drink in the mountain made of books.

The burial ground of two kings and a queen is now a calm city park in the middle of bustling Seoul.

The world's longest bridge fountain has hundreds of nozzles that create a beautiful, illuminated spectacle.

A remnant of Korea's colonial past lies forgotten in a hip neighborhood in Seoul.

A chilling monument to Korean patriots who resisted the Japanese occupation.

Step into a cartoon at this Seoul café that aims to evoke a two-dimensional scene.

South Korea's love of the silly photograph is on full display at this goofy collection of trompe l'oeil paintings.

An intricately decorated tiny place of worship.

Underground hospital complex constructed by slave laborers during the German occupation of the Channel Islands.

A replica memorializes the site where women were punished after the last witchcraft trial in Ireland.

Touching displays of wishes for peace from the Cold War era.

This giant squid sculpture sits near the spot where a real-life specimen was captured in the late 19th-century.

The tiny airport in remote Newfoundland that inspired a hit musical is also a modernist architectural gem.

This rocky spread has been squeezed up directly from the bowels of the earth.