Places hopemch Wants to Go

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

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

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

Entombed in this strange, white stone hill are the deadly remains of radioactive weapons production.

A small museum dedicated to the whimsical tool that turns sugar cookies into works of art.

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

An abandoned concrete jungle surrounded by a lush park.

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

Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is not your typical jungle gym.

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.

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

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