Museums in Missouri

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

This museum presents a dogged pursuit of 500 years of veterinary history.

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

An unexpected but incredible collection of wildlife dioramas spanning rainforests, swamps, forests, and plains.

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

The only pig museum in the U.S. holds one of the world's largest collections of pig items.

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

The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.

A big museum full of little worlds.

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

Where the author wrote her beloved "Little House" books.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

Over 600 vacuum cleaners stack the shelves of what may be the cleanest museum in America.

Thousands of small machines line the shelves of this personal collection which definitely delivers on its name.

This pristinely abandoned filling station on the edge of a graveyard is populated solely by unsettling mannequins.

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