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

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

A chessmaster's dream destination.

A small museum dedicated to the whimsical tool that turns sugar cookies into works of art.

This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.

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

The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.

Where the author wrote her beloved "Little House" books.

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

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

Another in a long tradition of legends regarding infernal seats.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

An extensive collection of fine art devoted to man's best friend.

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

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

This historic cliffside mansion uses a natural cave for air conditioning.

The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.

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.

A geological oddity formed by two rivers carving out a mass of limestone on both sides.

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.

This is not your typical jungle gym.

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