Built for television, this statue now serves as an unlikely memorial to a fireman who died on 9/11.

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

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

An adorably sweet display of sculpted Precious Moments figurines.

The Old Courthouse takes visitors on a captivating trip through St. Louis' timeline.

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

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

A larger-than-life monument to the overlooked women who braved Western expansion and broke down societal barriers.

The modest childhood home where the baseball legend and Yankees star learned to hit from both sides of the plate.

This unusually circular centenarian barn became a Route 66 icon.

The largest land animal skull ever discovered.

Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”

When you can afford only half a road, you build only half a road.

This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

A wonderful collection of all things Oz is nestled in the heart of Kansas.

The world’s largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian aircraft got its start in a poultry building.

This Wild West attraction is probably more fiction than history, but that doesn't mean it's not awesome.

The first home of the doomed aviatrix Amelia Earhart.

The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.

This statue is an ode to an iconic roadside advertisement popularized during the 1970s.

This massive marble memorial was built bit by bit either out of devotion or spite, but at the expense of the surrounding town.

These otherworldly limestone formations jut out from the Kansas prairie.

This historic church is named for abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher and the ruse to arm his fellow abolitionists.