Tour the luxe "glass cage" that inspired and unnerved the architecture world upon its debut.

An Art Deco gem that held together the artistic heart of an agricultural community for 92 years.

An Iowa town celebrates its heritage with the tallest working Dutch windmill in North America.

Today this bizarre rooftop phone booth seems like a piece of kitsch but it was once used to spot disastrous storms.

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

A chessmaster's dream destination.

This is not your typical jungle gym.

The Magic House provides a beautiful and creative environment for curious youngsters to get their knowledge on.

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

University City's quirkiest resident lives in a park named after its first.

A wax effigy of St. Valentine hides one of the saint's relics.

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

The modest, restored home of the legendary ragtime musician John William "Blind" Boone.

This pristinely abandoned filling station on the edge of a graveyard is populated solely by unsettling mannequins.

This Mediterranean castle was built for a millionaire and his giant dog.

After miraculously surviving a giant flood, the 19th-century nut tree and its offspring are protected with their own tiny park.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

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

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

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

Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.

Entombed in this strange, white stone hill are the deadly remains of radioactive weapons production.

A small museum dedicated to the whimsical tool that turns sugar cookies into works of art.

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