A town honors its legacy of traditional American Indian pipe carving with one gigantic pipe.

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

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

This giant green head remembers one of America's jazz giants.

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.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

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

Undone by Prohibition, this abandoned brewery-turned-flour mill is now ready for its third act.

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

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

A larger-than-life monument to the overlooked women who braved Western expansion and broke down societal barriers.

This ostentatious Italianate palace of an Oklahoma billionaire is filled with several themed mini-museums.

The first home of the doomed aviatrix Amelia Earhart.

These elevated trucks were put in place as a middle finger to The Man, but are now considered folk art.

The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.

Cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

Inmates dig the graves at the largest prison cemetery in the U.S., the final resting place of both cowboys and Indians.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.