Places Doran Manella Wants to Go

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

The ruins of a 19th century shelter run by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

This mansion was made famous by its colorful cast of owners and location along the Sante Fe Trail.

A tiny racehorse graveyard in the middle of a quiet Kansas City suburb.

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

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

This Italianate Villa-style castle is pretty to look at, just keep off the private property.

This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.

The life of one of America's pre-eminent painters is frozen in time in the home where he lived, worked, and died.

An abandoned concrete jungle surrounded by a lush park.

The golden age of flight captured in a downtown airport.

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

This giant green head remembers one of America's jazz giants.

The crumbling remains of the first Black-owned and operated hospital in Kansas City.

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.

A stack of stones steeped in Irish folklore, much like the hero they're connected to, hide in plain sight.

The oldest liquor store in the country is a model of resilience and mischief.

Dedicated to the history of the health sciences.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.