Point Lookout, Missouri
Ralph Foster Museum
This museum features the original car used on the Beverly Hillbillies sitcom.
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Point Lookout, Missouri
This museum features the original car used on the Beverly Hillbillies sitcom.
Eminence, Missouri
It's as if the herds walked straight out of a fairy tale into the Missouri wilds.
Irondale, Missouri
Some of the oldest exposed rock formations in the United States.
Joy, Missouri
Around 50 million gallons of water flow from this spring every day.
Joplin, Missouri
A mysterious light of unknown origin on the backroads of Missouri.
Kansas City, Missouri
The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.
Jefferson City, Missouri
The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."
Sedalia, Missouri
This historic cliffside mansion uses a natural cave for air conditioning.
Ellington, Missouri
One of the deepest springs in Missouri.
St. Louis, Missouri
This mausoleum is the final resting place of one of St. Louis's richest and most tragic families.
Kearney, Missouri
One of America's first planned communities is preserved in a state park.
Cape Girardeau, Missouri
This 1854 courthouse along the Mississippi River has a storied history.
Columbia, Missouri
The modest, restored home of the legendary ragtime musician John William "Blind" Boone.
Knob Noster, Missouri
The only remaining Cold War–era Minuteman II missile control center in Missouri.
St. Louis, Missouri
During the 19th-century, this park was a vital trading fort.
Clarence, Missouri
This pristinely abandoned filling station on the edge of a graveyard is populated solely by unsettling mannequins.
Oak Park, Illinois
The first home and studio that belonged to the famous architect.
Elmhurst, Illinois
A former atom smasher turned into an art gallery.
Oregon, Illinois
This monolithic statue was erected in honor of Chief Black Hawk (even if it wasn't made to look like him).
Chanute, Kansas
This unusual sculpture honors the city's namesake, Octave Chanute, for his pioneering work in early aviation.
Garden City, Kansas
The 55-pound trichobezoar was removed from the stomach of a cow.
Abilene, Kansas
A museum where visitors can learn about greyhounds and (more importantly) pet them.
St. Louis, Missouri
In the Compton Hill Reservoir Park sits a statue whose lack of clothing caused a scandal for the group that commissioned it.
Kirksville, Missouri
Another in a long tradition of legends regarding infernal seats.