This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

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

A Mormon place of exile in Missouri.

An adorably sweet display of sculpted Precious Moments figurines.

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

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

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

The first home of the doomed aviatrix Amelia Earhart.

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

A mysterious and terrifying public art goblin seemingly meant to inspire local legend.

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

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

Largest Roman Catholic church in North America.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

This lovely picnic spot featuring thunderous jet landings is an aircraft spotter’s dream.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.

This seemingly out-of-place gas station by the Watergate hotel was once described as the most expensive gas station in the world.

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.