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

This spot in St. Louis, marked with a simple sign, has seen more pro baseball than just about anywhere else in the world.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.

A big museum full of little worlds.

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

The mysterious white squirrels of this Illinois city are treated like sacred cows.

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.

A museum dedicated to man's boldest venture.

The world's largest man-made underground caverns offer unparalleled underwater wonders.

Now nearly abandoned, Kaskaskia was once the capital of Illinois and one of the most important towns on the upper Mississippi.

The lowest point in the state of Illinois, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.

This odd stone memorial remembers a loyal dog who offended the rail barons with his speed and saved his master with his pee.

A rainbow-colored house promotes LGBTQ rights across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church.

The face of the famed flier in a hillside in her hometown.

The first home of the doomed aviator Amelia Earhart.

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

One of America's first planned communities is preserved in a state park.

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

An abandoned concrete jungle surrounded by a lush park.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

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

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.