Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

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

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

The iconic remains of the original Academic Hall that burned down in 1892.

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

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

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

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

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

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

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

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

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

A tiny racehorse graveyard in the middle of a quiet Kansas City suburb.

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

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

This art deco masterpiece was once a miracle spring mecca but is now simply a government office building.

This magnificent Art Deco church is a reflection of Lithuania’s turbulent history.

Once known throughout Europe, this tiny and unusually progressive 18th century micro-nation within Lithuania now lies in ruins.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.