Places Annie Oortman Wants to Go

An abandoned concrete jungle surrounded by a lush park.

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

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

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

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

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

This historic motel standing at the "crossroads of America" offers a radio in every room and was saved by local protesters.

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

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

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.

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

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.

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

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

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

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

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

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.

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