Places evretrogrrl Wants to Go

This museum features the original car used on the Beverly Hillbillies sitcom.

Outside the Missouri Quilt Museum, this large spool has more than one million yards of thread—and counting.

It's as if the herds walked straight out of a fairy tale into the Missouri wilds.

Around 50 million gallons of water flow from this spring every day.

A historic, scenic mill that was forced to close due to overlogging.

An average of 33 million gallons of water pour out of the collapsed cave at the heart of this spherical spring.

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

One of America's first planned communities is preserved in a state park.

A 40-foot waterfall flows into this unique natural swimming hole.

Giant works of art interspersed throughout meadows and woodlands offer a new discovery at every turn.

These pink granite water slides are the result of millions of years of erosion.

Often referred to as the largest spring in America.

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

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

One of the deepest springs in Missouri.

One of few surviving standpipe water towers in the U.S.

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

When he found his hometown was no more, Lowell Davis decided to recreate a "new" ghost town from scratch.

A celebration of the animation wizard's childhood home and antique railroad memorabilia collection.

The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.

An abandoned factory along the Mississippi coated by a giant mural.

One man's unrequited love stands in a glass box forever.

A small museum dedicated to the whimsical tool that turns sugar cookies into works of art.

This 40-foot fowl marks the so-called "wild goose capital of the world."