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A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

This large midwestern cavern features impressive rock formations and an underground waterfall.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

This "little gallery in the middle of nowhere" is housed in a 170-year-old horse barn in the Missouri Ozarks.

Destroyed by flood waters, prison now serves as a training ground for armed forces.

A floating museum that was sunk by a flood and left to rot in the tides.

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

The only mill in the state that features a covered bridge.

A 40-foot waterfall flows into this unique natural swimming hole.

The longest of the four remaining covered bridges in Missouri.

An underground river pushes more than 200 million gallons out of this Missouri spring every day.

A version of this picturesque mill has existed since the 1800s.

The largest riverfront opening cave in the Ozarks.

This small turbine mill along Rocky Creek was built in 1928

Around 50 million gallons of water flow from this spring every day.

In Edwin Hubble's hometown, a scale model of the groundbreaking telescope that was named in his honor.