Columbia, Missouri
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Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.
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Columbia, Missouri
Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.
Fort Smith, Arkansas
Where Elvis Presley received his first Army buzz cut.
Bartlesville, Oklahoma
A whimsical tower with a spiral staircase, inspired by the Space Age and the Möbius strip.
Jefferson City, Missouri
Destroyed by flood waters, prison now serves as a training ground for armed forces.
Alma, Arkansas
Bronze statue marks the spinach capital of the world.
Nowata, Oklahoma
To honor his gardening wife, this yard artist turns bowling balls into playful, colorful sculptures.
Calico Rock, Arkansas
An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.
Commerce, Oklahoma
The modest childhood home where the baseball legend and Yankees star learned to hit from both sides of the plate.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.
Tahlequah, Oklahoma
The granite monument is engraved with the image of the talking horse's head coming through a barn door.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
The Ozarks' strangest dwelling.
Springfield, Missouri
An unexpected but incredible collection of wildlife dioramas spanning rainforests, swamps, forests, and plains.
Saint James, Missouri
Over 600 vacuum cleaners stack the shelves of what may be the cleanest museum in America.
Springfield, Missouri
A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.
Petersburg, Kentucky
A 70,000-square-foot institution dedicated to a very literal, creationist perspective on the Book of Genesis.
Indianapolis, Indiana
The body of one of the world's most famous outlaws is covered in cement and iron to prevent it from being stolen.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.
Indianapolis, Indiana
A 30-year-old Sycamore tree grown from a seed taken to the moon and back.
Versailles, Ohio
The final resting place of the most famous sharpshooter.
Fortville, Indiana
The bespectacled, cocktail-sipping pachyderm is a strange but fitting liquor store mascot.
Alexandria, Indiana
Covered in tens of thousands of coats of paint, this Indiana attraction holds a world record all its own.
Toledo, Ohio
A 30-foot stack of piano keys memorializes one of the greatest keys players in jazz history.
Put-in-Bay, Ohio
Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.
Richmond, Virginia
Within this lovely Richmond cemetery lie the remains of famous Virginians and some of Edgar Allan Poe's most beloved family and friends.