This small turbine mill along Rocky Creek was built in 1928

The creator of the Kewpie doll's former home has been turned into a museum celebrating her life and work.

Outside the Missouri Quilt Museum, this large spool has more than one million yards of thread—and counting.

The largest riverfront opening cave in the Ozarks.

In Edwin Hubble's hometown, a scale model of the groundbreaking telescope that was named in his honor.

A vineyard devoted entirely to an unexplored flavor frontier.

Come for the heirloom-corn whiskey, stay for the wood hats.

Around 50 million gallons of water flow from this spring every day.

It's as if the herds walked straight out of a fairy tale into the Missouri wilds.

Rusted and decayed, this former mining site is a portal to the past.

Often referred to as the largest spring in America.

This curious headstone is labeled simply as "The Queen."

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

This mausoleum is the final resting place of one of St. Louis's richest and most tragic families.

One of the deepest springs in Missouri.

Nestled in Onondaga State Park, over 100 canoes carefully stacked in a replica of the famous standing stones.

This museum located in the "Corn Cob Pipe Capital of the World," chronicles the history of cob pipe.

A museum devoted to osteopathy and its creator, Andrew Still.

Away from the crowds of fishing enthusiasts, take a hike deep into the woods and journey into an eerie darkness.

This museum presents a dogged pursuit of 500 years of veterinary history.

Thousands of small machines line the shelves of this personal collection which definitely delivers on its name.

Famous church recognized for both its unique design and disciplined monks that live according to the Benedictine discipline.

This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.

The only pig museum in the U.S. holds one of the world's largest collections of pig items.