A local shop filled with handcrafted art and funky home furnishings, vintage, and antiques.

This roadside park filled with unusual statues is on the grounds of an abandoned railway station.

The first "Hut" was actually a small brick building.

Rusted and decayed, this former mining site is a portal to the past.

A 40-foot waterfall flows into this unique natural swimming hole.

Away from the crowds of fishing enthusiasts, take a hike deep into the woods and journey into an eerie darkness.

A flat slab of stone perched hundreds of feet above the Gasconade River in the northern Ozark mountains.

The only remaining Cold War–era Minuteman II missile control center in Missouri.

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

One of few surviving standpipe water towers in the U.S.

The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.

Entombed in this strange, white stone hill are the deadly remains of radioactive weapons production.

Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in 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.

Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

400 million-year old limestone caverns nestled in the Ozarks served as shelter and a hideout for cultures throughout North American history.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

The world's largest man-made underground caverns offer unparalleled underwater wonders.

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

A monument celebrating the Black soldiers of the 9th and 10th Cavalry.

Once an ancient sea, this landscape of rocky ravines is filled with the fossils of ancient marine life.

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