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

A cave 150 feet beneath Kansas City is the perfect climate for growing 10,000 delicate orchids.

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

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.

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

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

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.

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

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

Erosion and time have created a naturally-formed water park.

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

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

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

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

A tiny racehorse graveyard in the middle of a quiet Kansas City suburb.

See the motorcycles that launched the stuntman to fame and the gear that saved his life.

A whimsical monument marks the highest point in Kansas, not that you could tell by the looks of it.

A house turned museum is the real-life "home" of the fictional main character of The Wizard of Oz.

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

A landscape of massive spherical boulders are the main attraction in this Kansas State Park.

Curious rock formations in a tiny Kansas state park.