The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

This Kansas City studio was home to Walt Disney's first animation business.

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

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

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

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

Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.

One home in the historic strip hides secret compartments and the ghostly songs of long-gone canaries.

The old fire tower is one of the last of its kind in the United States.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

One devoted couple has donated multiple recreations of Michelangelo's sculptures to this South Dakota town.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

A museum, walk-through diorama, and library nestled under one castle-like roof.

The first patented shaved-ice machine heralded a snowy wonderland of iced treats at a favorite New Orleans summer shack.

This UFO landing strip was created by a charitable Wyoming city that was worried about residents of Jupiter.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

Undone by Prohibition, this abandoned brewery-turned-flour mill is now ready for its third act.

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

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

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

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

A historic arena where the Beatles played their first concert in the U.S.