Town not known for anything except its strange name.

This ghost town houses the remains of Alabama's old state capital.

A large instrument played by the wind.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

This former Union fort commands a fine view of downtown Cape Girardeau and the Mississippi River.

The iconic remains of the original Academic Hall that burned down in 1892.

This 1854 courthouse along the Mississippi River has a storied history.

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

A wax effigy of St. Valentine hides one of the saint's relics.

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

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

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

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

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

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.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

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

In the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks at 1,772 feet above sea level, Taum Sauk Mountain is the highest (and possibly oldest) peak in Missouri.

Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

One Confederate statue that accurately reflects the ugliness of its subject.