A 2,500-pound wooden nickel makes this woodworking museum easy to spot from the road.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

This failed condo development was reborn as a street art hub.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

The world's second-longest burning light bulb.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

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

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

The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.

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.

Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.

Built in 1869, this now-retired structure looks more like a medieval fortress than a county lock-up.

A floating museum that was sunk by a flood and left to rot in the tides.

Man-made geyser that rises to the exact height of the Gateway Arch.

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

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

This spot in St. Louis, marked with a simple sign, has seen more pro baseball than just about anywhere else in the world.