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

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

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

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

A big museum full of little worlds.

A subterranean haunt where wine and homemade biscottis are always on the menu.

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

Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.

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

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

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

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

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

This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.

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

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.

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

A rare specimen of an iconic extinct animal in downtown Sydney.

These springs were once the source of a tourism boom to Sulphur Springs.

One of the oldest show caves in Arkansas.

Memorials are nearly all that remains of this Arkansas prison camp, where thousands of Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated during World War II.

You can dig up your own crystals in the quartz capital of the world.

The warmest cave in the Ozarks features two seemingly bottomless lakes.