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

This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.

The only remaining Cold War–era Minuteman II missile control center in Missouri.

This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.

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

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

This pristinely abandoned filling station on the edge of a graveyard is populated solely by unsettling mannequins.

During the 19th-century, this park was a vital trading fort.

When he found his hometown was no more, Lowell Davis decided to recreate a "new" ghost town from scratch.

The crumbling remains of the first Black-owned and operated hospital in Kansas City.

Another in a long tradition of legends regarding infernal seats.

A museum dedicated to man's boldest venture.

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

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

This wooded grove of beautiful hand-built stone grottos is a hidden gem within a shuttered Franciscan monastery.

The first rural cemetery west of the Mississippi is home to the elaborate tombs of St. Louis' local beer barons.

A chessmaster's dream destination.

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

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

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

This historic motel standing at the "crossroads of America" offers a radio in every room and was saved by local protesters.

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

The ruins of a 19th century shelter run by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

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