Places evretrogrrl Wants to Go

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.

The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.

Three markers installed over the course of 140 years mark the point where Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma converge.

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

This historic motel standing at the "crossroads of America" offers a radio in every room and was saved by local protesters.

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

The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.

Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.

An unexpected but incredible collection of wildlife dioramas spanning rainforests, swamps, forests, and plains.

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

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

A mysterious light of unknown origin on the backroads of Missouri.

The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.

In the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks at 1,772 feet above sea level, Taum Sauk Mountain is the highest (and possibly oldest) peak in Missouri.

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

Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.

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

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

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

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

This is not your typical jungle gym.

400 million-year old limestone caverns nestled in the Ozarks served as shelter and a hideout for cultures throughout North American history.