Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

Another in a long tradition of legends regarding infernal seats.

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

A cave 150 feet beneath Kansas City is the perfect climate for growing 10,000 delicate orchids.

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

A floating museum that was sunk by a flood and left to rot in the tides.

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

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.

This historic cliffside mansion uses a natural cave for air conditioning.

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

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

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

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

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.

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.

This is not your typical jungle gym.

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

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

The world's largest man-made underground caverns offer unparalleled underwater wonders.

Erosion and time have created a naturally-formed water park.

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

Curious cave that stays a cool 56 degrees all year long.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.