The obelisk meant to mark the founding father's grave at Monticello is actually on the University of Missouri campus.

The man who was president for only one day and spent most of it asleep.

This pristinely abandoned filling station on the edge of a graveyard is populated solely by unsettling mannequins.

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

Where the author wrote her beloved "Little House" books.

This historic cliffside mansion uses a natural cave for air conditioning.

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

This abandoned, windowless concrete block is one of the strangest buildings in Tulsa.

Sitting in the arguable birthplace of the Wild West, this museum holds the largest collection of bronco busting bric-a-brac in the world.

This ostentatious Italianate palace of an Oklahoma billionaire is filled with several themed mini-museums.

Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”

A whimsical tower with a spiral staircase, inspired by the Space Age and the Möbius strip.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

An antique Beechcraft airplane serves as a giant windsock for people driving through the blustery open country of eastern Wyoming.

The only retired U.S. nuclear missile silo that is open to the public.

This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.

Population: 1.

This rustic old building is said to be the most photographed barn in America.