Places halfLight7 Wants to Go

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

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

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

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

An abandoned concrete jungle surrounded by a lush park.

Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.

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

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.

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.

This is not your typical jungle gym.

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

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

A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.

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

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

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

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

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

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

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

A small burial plot formerly stranded in the middle of a road.

The Iowa state contender for largest pan in the world oddly only comes in second or so.

This remote island in Iowa was abandoned after being devastated by flood.