This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

Walk the whole Mississippi River!

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

The first rural cemetery west of the Mississippi is home to the elaborate tombs of St. Louis' local beer barons.

The Old Courthouse takes visitors on a captivating trip through St. Louis' timeline.

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

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

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

This enormous World War II relic is one of the largest wooden structures in the world.

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

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.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.