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

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

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

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

This historic cliffside mansion uses a natural cave for air conditioning.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

This century-old roadside attraction is full of bizarre rock formations.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

This monumental Jesus is often referred to as "Our Milk Carton With Arms."

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

An extravagant western hotel where every floor is the "ground floor."

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

Strange physical sensations and optical contradictions keep visitors coming back for more.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

A Northwoods sporting competition that shows lumber jacks doing much more than cutting down trees.

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

World's largest Christmas store.

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

The world's tallest doric column is this Ohio monument to a naval victory in the War of 1812.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

An ever-evolving wall of graffiti art off East Liberty Street.