The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

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

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

This zombie-themed restaurant stands out in the heart of corn country.

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

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

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

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

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

The man who was president for only one day and spent most of it asleep.

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

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

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

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

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

Undone by Prohibition, this abandoned brewery-turned-flour mill is now ready for its third act.

This sacred space and gathering spot for the Wyandot Nation has been the surrounded by controversy and confusion.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

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

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

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

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

This mansion was made famous by its colorful cast of owners and location along the Sante Fe Trail.