A home designed to be on the cutting edge of comfortable, low-cost living.

A mysterious light of unknown origin on the backroads of Missouri.

One believer transformed a local curiosity into proof of Vikings on the Great Plains.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

The only fully-realized skyscraper built by the famed American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

Where hills of dirt conceal the burial ground of one of the most powerful ancient Native American societies.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

Walk the whole Mississippi River!

This open air cathedral invites all faiths to worship under the only roof big enough to fit them all: the sky.

Symbolic attempt to overcome the issues of life.

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

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

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

When you can afford only half a road, you build only half a road.

Three markers installed over the course of 140 years mark the point where Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma converge.

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.

You have to love a museum with a truly dedicated focus. A focus on Superman, for example.

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.

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

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