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

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

A small town garden is dedicated to a psychic dog with the most soulful eyes.

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

This art deco masterpiece was once a miracle spring mecca but is now simply a government office building.

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

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

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.

An adorably sweet display of sculpted Precious Moments figurines.

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

Where the author wrote her beloved "Little House" books.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

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

This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.

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

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.

Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

Curious cave that stays a cool 56 degrees all year long.

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