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

This majestic tree has survived 400 years of storms, droughts, and floods, and is a beloved natural landmark in Missouri.

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

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

The ruins of a 19th century shelter run by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

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

An abandoned concrete jungle surrounded by a lush park.

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

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

An unexpected but incredible collection of wildlife dioramas spanning rainforests, swamps, forests, and plains.

A subterranean haunt where wine and homemade biscottis are always on the menu.

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

A big museum full of little worlds.

Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.

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

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

The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.

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

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

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

The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."

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.

This is not your typical jungle gym.