Places Charles Midkiff Wants to Go

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

This pristinely abandoned filling station on the edge of a graveyard is populated solely by unsettling mannequins.

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

A mysterious light of unknown origin on the backroads of Missouri.

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

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

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

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