One of America's first planned communities is preserved in a state park.

This "little gallery in the middle of nowhere" is housed in a 170-year-old horse barn in the Missouri Ozarks.

A museum dedicated to man's boldest venture.

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

Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.

Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.

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.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

400 million-year old limestone caverns nestled in the Ozarks served as shelter and a hideout for cultures throughout North American history.

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

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

This historic early-20th-century building still boasts some of its original features.

A local shop filled with handcrafted art and funky home furnishings, vintage, and antiques.

This lesser-known geographic marker was the reference point for all surveys of the continent for 75 years.

A unique gallery chronicles the losers of American presidential history.

The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.

See the motorcycles that launched the stuntman to fame and the gear that saved his life.

The world’s largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian aircraft got its start in a poultry building.

A Kansas grassroots sculptor decorates the local roadways with his sculptures made from found objects.

This Wild West attraction is probably more fiction than history, but that doesn't mean it's not awesome.

A diverse, expansive nature preserve in northeastern Kansas.

A lifetime's accumulation of bric-a-brac and kitsch.

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

This historic theater's pipe organ still accompanies silent films just like it did in 1929.