A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

A mysterious light of unknown origin on the backroads of Missouri.

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.

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.

An adorably sweet display of sculpted Precious Moments figurines.

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

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

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.

This museum features the original car used on the Beverly Hillbillies sitcom.

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

Destroyed by flood waters, prison now serves as a training ground for armed forces.