When he found his hometown was no more, Lowell Davis decided to recreate a "new" ghost town from scratch.

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

The famous greeting card maker owns a collection of paintings by the famed surrealist.

The crumbling remains of the first Black-owned and operated hospital in Kansas City.

One man's unrequited love stands in a glass box forever.

This Kansas City studio was home to Walt Disney's first animation business.

This former Union fort commands a fine view of downtown Cape Girardeau and the Mississippi River.

One of the world's earliest skyscrapers.

This mausoleum is the final resting place of one of St. Louis's richest and most tragic families.

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

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

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

Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.

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

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

The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.

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

A chessmaster's dream destination.

This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

Famous church recognized for both its unique design and disciplined monks that live according to the Benedictine discipline.

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

Thousands of small machines line the shelves of this personal collection which definitely delivers on its name.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.