Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

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

The oldest purpose-built cinema still in operation also houses a museum of movie memorabilia.

This museum located in the "Corn Cob Pipe Capital of the World," chronicles the history of cob pipe.

The only remaining Cold War–era Minuteman II missile control center in Missouri.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

This "little gallery in the middle of nowhere" is housed in a 170-year-old horse barn in the Missouri Ozarks.

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

University City's quirkiest resident lives in a park named after its first.

Destroyed by flood waters, prison now serves as a training ground for armed forces.

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.

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

This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.

Another in a long tradition of legends regarding infernal seats.

A small museum dedicated to the whimsical tool that turns sugar cookies into works of art.

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

400 million-year old limestone caverns nestled in the Ozarks served as shelter and a hideout for cultures throughout North American history.

The world's largest man-made underground caverns offer unparalleled underwater wonders.

This sprawling mini-golf empire is an impressive testament to a disappearing attraction.

What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.

This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.