This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

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

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

This spot in St. Louis, marked with a simple sign, has seen more pro baseball than just about anywhere else in the world.

University City's quirkiest resident lives in a park named after its first.

The first rural cemetery west of the Mississippi is home to the elaborate tombs of St. Louis' local beer barons.

The only pig museum in the U.S. holds one of the world's largest collections of pig items.

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

This wooded grove of beautiful hand-built stone grottos is a hidden gem within a shuttered Franciscan monastery.

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

The modest, restored home of the legendary ragtime musician John William "Blind" Boone.

A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.

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

The iconic remains of the original Academic Hall that burned down in 1892.

This museum presents a dogged pursuit of 500 years of veterinary history.

Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.

This "little gallery in the middle of nowhere" is housed in a 170-year-old horse barn in the Missouri Ozarks.

The only remaining Cold War–era Minuteman II missile control center in Missouri.

This 1854 courthouse along the Mississippi River has a storied history.

This mansion was made famous by its colorful cast of owners and location along the Sante Fe Trail.

A sculpture of a giant man escaping from the depths of the Earth.

A magnificent church designed by world-renowned architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

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

Who said a biker bar is no place for a taxidermy squirrel collection?