Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

Two Ming Dynasty lion statues guard the entrance to the journalism school.

The obelisk meant to mark the founding father's grave at Monticello is actually on the University of Missouri campus.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.

One of America's first planned communities is preserved in a state park.

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

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

This art deco masterpiece was once a miracle spring mecca but is now simply a government office building.

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

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

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

One of just a few cities in the world to base their center of government on an island. Others: Paris and Osaka.

Millions of dollars worth of sculpture decorate this Iowa city center.