Places amathison86 Wants to Go

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

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

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

The only remaining Cold War–era Minuteman II missile control center in Missouri.

This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.

A museum dedicated to man's boldest venture.

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

The crumbling remains of the first Black-owned and operated hospital in Kansas City.

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

Three markers installed over the course of 140 years mark the point where Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma converge.

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

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

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

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

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

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

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

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.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

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

A humble reconstruction of the rather lively former capitol building.

A museum dedicated to all things vinegar in rural South Dakota.

The oldest extant wooden jail in South Dakota and possibly the United States.