This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

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

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.

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 art deco masterpiece was once a miracle spring mecca but is now simply a government office building.

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

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.

Curious cave that stays a cool 56 degrees all year long.

Erosion and time have created a naturally-formed water park.

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

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

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

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A vista of the city and sea from atop the little-known viewing deck on an unassuming Columbus statue.

Step inside the first house designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, considered to be one of the first Art Nouveau buildings.

Construction of Barcelona's iconic (but controversial) church is expected to be completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.