Places alaskanmoss Wants to Go

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

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

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

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

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

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

A mysterious light of unknown origin on the backroads of Missouri.

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

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

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

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

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

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

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

Erosion and time have created a naturally-formed water park.

The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.

Curious cave that stays a cool 56 degrees all year long.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

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.

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

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

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.

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