St. Louis, Missouri
Cotton Belt Freight Depot
An abandoned factory along the Mississippi coated by a giant mural.
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St. Louis, Missouri
An abandoned factory along the Mississippi coated by a giant mural.
Fairmont City, Illinois
Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.
Collinsville, Illinois
Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.
Fulton, Missouri
A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.
Kansas City, Missouri
A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.
Kansas City, Missouri
Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.
Benton, Illinois
The famous Beatle secretly visited this Illinois town several times to visit his sister.
Paducah, Kentucky
A 22-foot stainless steel quilting needle pays tribute to a local connection to fiber arts.
Paducah, Kentucky
A collection of outdoor art by renowned muralist Robert Dafford depicts the history of a flooded city.
Boone, North Carolina
One of the oldest Black communities in western North Carolina and one of the largest Black Mennonite congregations in the country.
Denver, Colorado
A pair of gargoyles peer into unsuspecting passengers at Denver’s conspiracy-packed airport.
Thomasville, North Carolina
A 30-foot-tall cement chair pays tribute to a historic design and a local industry.
Wichita, Kansas
After retiring, Gary Pendergrass turned his yard into a wonderland of outsider art.
Wichita, Kansas
A meticulously restored Wichita home designed by the most renowned American architect of the 20th century.
Wichita, Kansas
Created by Catalan artist Joan Miró in 1978 and made up of 350,000 tiles, this mural is the only large-scale glass mosaic the artist ever created.
Wichita, Kansas
The first "Hut" was actually a small brick building.
Wichita, Kansas
The largest mural in the world painted by a single artist.
Wichita, Kansas
A mysterious and terrifying public art goblin seemingly meant to inspire local legend.
Wichita, Kansas
The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.
Kernersville, North Carolina
Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.
Detroit, Michigan
Inside the Wayne County airport is an amazing collection of lights and sounds.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
A public urinal so pretty, it was declared a national monument.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
An ancient passage filled with stalls selling used books, once frequented by Vincent Van Gogh.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
This unusual elevator doesn’t stop or slow down.