This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

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

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

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

This 40-foot fowl marks the so-called "wild goose capital of the world."

A Mormon place of exile in Missouri.

The face of the famed flier in a hillside in her hometown.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

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

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

This Italianate Villa-style castle is pretty to look at, just keep off the private property.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.