This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

Where the author wrote her beloved "Little House" books.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

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

A magnificent church designed by world-renowned architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

This giant green head remembers one of America's jazz giants.

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

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

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

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

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

A hidden treasure of an abandoned city lies deep in the jungles of Campeche, Mexico.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

The opulent home that inspired Tintin's Marlinspike Hall and the adventures within.