A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

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

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

This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.

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

This art deco masterpiece was once a miracle spring mecca but is now simply a government office building.

A small town garden is dedicated to a psychic dog with the most soulful eyes.

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

One of few surviving standpipe water towers in the U.S.

A celebration of the animation wizard's childhood home and antique railroad memorabilia collection.

The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

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

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

A chessmaster's dream destination.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A geological oddity formed by two rivers carving out a mass of limestone on both sides.