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

This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.

This historic motel standing at the "crossroads of America" offers a radio in every room and was saved by local protesters.

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

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

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

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

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

This historic railroad hotel built from Kansas limestone was once the most popular hotels for traveling salesmen in the midwest.

This 41,000-acre wetland complex is the largest marsh in the interior of the United States.

This artsy public restroom is shaped like a giant john.

Site of the 1926 murder trial of Ernest Burkhart who was involved in the "Reign of Terror."

A tiny but mighty little pumper sits in the middle of the street, waiting for the next big oil strike.

This highway overpass was named after the tragic disappearance of a young mother who got mixed up with the wrong people.

A museum honoring Oklahoma military service, where you can look into Hitler's mirror and see a Mickey Mouse gas mask.

Lions and tigers and leopards, servals, pumas, bobcats, lynxes, and ocelots... oh my!