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

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

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

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

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

The first home of the doomed aviatrix Amelia Earhart.

Lone survivor from Custer's Last Stand forever preserved.

This massive marble memorial was built bit by bit either out of devotion or spite, but at the expense of the surrounding town.

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

Self-built house and sculpture park where the creator can still be seen in a glass coffin.

A tribute to the twin ideals of religion and patriotism, built by a Catholic priest from rocks, glass, and innumerable found items.

For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.