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The oldest bar in Missouri is hidden within a limestone brewery cellar more than 50 feet underground.

Learn all about this iconic air rifle without putting an eye out.

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

A Jurassic artscape composed of transmission casings and other mechanical parts.

This museum houses artifacts from American adventurers and filmmakers Martin and Osa Johnson.

This small museum contains fossils from an era when Kansas was underwater.

This historic early-20th-century building still boasts some of its original features.

Tribute to the famous Notre Dame football coach who died in a plane crash.

This century-old painting of a portly 10-foot-tall man spent years hidden behind plaster.

Enjoy a tour of oddities and makeshift monsters at this souvenir store with an offbeat sense of humor.

This statue is an ode to an iconic roadside advertisement popularized during the 1970s.

A college in rural Kansas founded to prepare the country for an impending World War III.

This lesser-known geographic marker was the reference point for all surveys of the continent for 75 years.

A unique blue and yellow phone booth in America's "Little Sweden."

A museum where visitors can learn about greyhounds and (more importantly) pet them.

This artsy public restroom is shaped like a giant john.

Stories of sightless fish and ghostly cowboys are only a fraction of the legends surrounding this Kansas sinkhole.

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.

This Italianate Villa-style castle is pretty to look at, just keep off the private property.

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

A house turned museum is the real-life "home" of the fictional main character of The Wizard of Oz.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

A trail weaves through the verses of a poem illustrated by stone sculptures inspired by Native American pictographs.

The haunted reputation of these abandoned Colorado train tunnels is probably not helped by the terrifying spiked fence.