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

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

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

The first home of the doomed aviatrix Amelia Earhart.

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

This Italianate Villa-style castle is pretty to look at, just keep off the private property.

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.

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

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

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

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

The crumbling remains of the first Black-owned and operated hospital in Kansas City.

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

An abandoned concrete jungle surrounded by a lush park.

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

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

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.