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

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

This museum located in the "Corn Cob Pipe Capital of the World," chronicles the history of cob pipe.

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

This small town bank is very aware of its name thank you very much.

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

The oldest bar in Missouri is hidden within a limestone brewery cellar more than 50 feet underground.

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

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

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

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

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

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

This Italianate Villa-style castle is pretty to look at, just keep off the private property.

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

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

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