Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City Library's Community Bookshelf
Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.
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Kansas City, Missouri
Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.
Ridgedale, Missouri
If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.
St. Louis, Missouri
A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.
Kansas City, Missouri
This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.
Jadwin, Missouri
Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.
Bonne Terre, Missouri
The world's largest man-made underground caverns offer unparalleled underwater wonders.
Camdenton, Missouri
European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.
St. Joseph, Missouri
The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.
St. Louis, Missouri
Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.
Pierce City, Missouri
First crafted during the 19th century, the mill was fully restored in 1983.
Chelsea, Oklahoma
A likeness of Da Vinci's mysterious painting smiles at passersby from the side of a barn.
Mansfield, Missouri
Where the author wrote her beloved "Little House" books.
Florence, Italy
Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.
Florence, Italy
This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.
Florence, Italy
The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.
Florence, Italy
Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.
Florence, Italy
This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.
Da Nang, Vietnam
This Vietnamese hell cave lets visitors take a walk through a devilish underworld full of demons.
Lido, Italy
Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.
Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
A monument to the bloody fight against fascism in Slovakia during World War II.
Telgárt, Slovakia
A gorgeous stone viaduct crosses over a bucolic valley.
Bratislava, Slovakia
Also known as the Blue Church, the building was consecrated to the daughter of Andrew II.
Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia
After 11 years of reconstruction work, Slovakia's finest hilltop chapel complex is finally reopen to the public.
Medzilaborce, Slovakia
An extraordinary museum devoted to the pop art legend created by Slovak artists.