Kansas City, Kansas
Sauer Castle
This Italianate Villa-style castle is pretty to look at, just keep off the private property.
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Kansas City, Kansas
This Italianate Villa-style castle is pretty to look at, just keep off the private property.
Junction City, Kansas
A cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.
Kansas City, Kansas
This sacred space and gathering spot for the Wyandot Nation has been the surrounded by controversy and confusion.
Kansas City, Missouri
Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.
Liberty, Missouri
The ruins of a 19th century shelter run by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
St. Louis, Missouri
This spot in St. Louis, marked with a simple sign, has seen more pro baseball than just about anywhere else in the world.
St. Louis, Missouri
An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.
New York, New York
An extensive collection of fine art devoted to man's best friend.
Independence, Missouri
This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.
Kansas City, Missouri
The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.
Kansas City, Missouri
A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.
Kansas City, Missouri
The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.
Ladysmith, Wisconsin
A fairytale art house in the middle of Wisconsin.
Hayward, Wisconsin
Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.
Lake Nebagamon, Wisconsin
Tirelessly maintained by a Wisconsin man named JFK.
Duluth, Minnesota
This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.
Cloquet, Minnesota
The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.
North St Paul, Minnesota
Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
World's largest carved onyx figure stands as a tribute to enduring peace.
Kellogg, Minnesota
This secret gem of a toy store houses a rideable carousel populated with fantasy animals.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.
La Crosse, Wisconsin
Giant six-pack could provide one person a six-pack a day for 3,351 years.
West Des Moines, Iowa
A small burial plot formerly stranded in the middle of a road.