Kansas City, Missouri
Laugh-O-Gram Studio
This Kansas City studio was home to Walt Disney's first animation business.
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Kansas City, Missouri
This Kansas City studio was home to Walt Disney's first animation business.
St. Louis, Missouri
This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.
Independence, Missouri
This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.
Kansas City, Missouri
Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.
Sturgeon, Missouri
A geological oddity formed by two rivers carving out a mass of limestone on both sides.
St. Joseph, Missouri
The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.
St. Joseph, Missouri
The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.
Kearney, Missouri
One of America's first planned communities is preserved in a state park.
Kansas City, Missouri
Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.
Kansas City, Missouri
The crumbling remains of the first Black-owned and operated hospital in Kansas City.
Kansas City, Missouri
This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.
Kansas City, Missouri
The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.
Kansas City, Missouri
This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.