This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.

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

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

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

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

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.

This quaint museum lets you take a ride on its antique carousels.

The quirky collection includes treasures like Elvis' underwear, Bob Barker's toothbrush, and hundreds of sock monkeys.

Why settle for barbecue chips when you can get actual barbecue?

The famous Beatle secretly visited this Illinois town several times to visit his sister.

Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

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

The 40-year-old machine serves soda quicker than you can catch it for a mere 75 cents a pop.

This abandoned Abraham Lincoln statue has also earned the honorary of "World's Ugliest."

The legacy of an unsolved, gruesome murder rests beneath the spans of this historic bridge.

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

One of the first historical sites of an alternative universe was installed in the town of Paris, Illinois—which is now home to an annual spelling bee of Kcymaerxthaereal words.

A sprawling outdoor museum filled with larger-than-life works of art.

The NBA player's elaborate former home is now a ghost of its old glory.

Urban explorers embraced America's now demolished first suburban mall, south of Chicago.

This abstract sculpture is rumored to cast a hammer-and-sickle shadow once a year.

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.