This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

This metal eagle one of the final remnants of a newspaper that wanted to keep Brooklyn to Brooklyn.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

A bike being "eaten" by a tree is the real Vashon legend behind popular children's book, "Red Ranger Came Calling."

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

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

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

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

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

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

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

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

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

A wonderful collection of all things Oz is nestled in the heart of Kansas.

During the 1990's nearly all of the world's LSD is thought to have come from the operators of the lab once located in this missile silo.

A diverse, expansive nature preserve in northeastern Kansas.

A cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.

A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

While most of the games in this arcade take quarters, that would have been a small fortune when they were made.

This super steep hike ascends 2,000 feet in less than a mile.

These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.

This grand stone tower was dedicated to a famed American humorist almost by coincidence.