Places genangela Wants to Go

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

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

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.

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

The oldest bar in Missouri is hidden within a limestone brewery cellar more than 50 feet underground.

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

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

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

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

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

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

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

The Rhubarb capital of Illinois has made their title official with this 10 foot tall statue.

The oldest functioning restaurant in the state of Illinois, operating since 1847.

The last remaining vestige of a popular 1999 public art display.

A museum and gift shop in a small Illinois town commemorates the work of E.C. Segar and the local figures on whom he based his characters.

A hidden oasis just north of Chicago's Chinatown.

Burial site of the notorious Chicago gangster.

In 2004, a Dave Matthews Band tour bus dumped 800 pounds of waste off a bridge and onto an unsuspecting tour boat below.

Over 120 years ago, the original boardgame that inspired Monopoly was invented in this small Illinois town.

A source of civic pride, though the reason for its construction is unknown.