Places dbuckenmyer Wants to Go

A sculpture of a giant man escaping from the depths of the Earth.

University City's quirkiest resident lives in a park named after its first.

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

The first rural cemetery west of the Mississippi is home to the elaborate tombs of St. Louis' local beer barons.

This wooded grove of beautiful hand-built stone grottos is a hidden gem within a shuttered Franciscan monastery.

This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.

A subterranean haunt where wine and homemade biscottis are always on the menu.

This majestic tree has survived 400 years of storms, droughts, and floods, and is a beloved natural landmark in Missouri.

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

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

An abandoned concrete jungle surrounded by a lush park.

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

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

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

A geological oddity formed by two rivers carving out a mass of limestone on both sides.

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

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

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.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.