The iconic remains of the original Academic Hall that burned down in 1892.

The oldest bar in Missouri is hidden within a limestone brewery cellar more than 50 feet underground.

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

This giant green head remembers one of America's jazz giants.

This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.

One of few surviving standpipe water towers in the U.S.

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

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

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

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

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

A hidden barn-sized rendition of Grant Wood's most famous, and most parodied, painting.

A pop-culture attraction outside of Dyersville, Iowa, hits a home run.

Journey up the capitol building's cupola for an amazing view of Topeka.

A unique blue and yellow phone booth in America's "Little Sweden."

Metal sculpture folk art lining the Kansas Highway.

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

Lone survivor from Custer's Last Stand forever preserved.

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

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.

A landscape of massive spherical boulders are the main attraction in this Kansas State Park.

Curious rock formations in a tiny Kansas state park.

The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.