Outside the Missouri Quilt Museum, this large spool has more than one million yards of thread—and counting.

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

This giant green head remembers one of America's jazz giants.

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

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

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

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

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

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

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.