This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.

The site of the first daylight, peacetime bank robbery by the James gang.

A Mormon place of exile in Missouri.

Outside the Missouri Quilt Museum, this large spool has more than one million yards of thread—and counting.

This grassy field marks the site of a surprising religious conflict.

This pristinely abandoned filling station on the edge of a graveyard is populated solely by unsettling mannequins.

The beginnings of one of America's most famous military officers.

The longest of the four remaining covered bridges in Missouri.

This interactive museum preserves the big aviation history of this small Missouri town

In rural Iowa, an imported 19th-century windmill overlooks an unlikely enclave of Danish culture.

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

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

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

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.

Lone survivor from Custer's Last Stand forever preserved.

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

The iconic remains of the original Academic Hall that burned down in 1892.

Two Ming Dynasty lion statues guard the entrance to the journalism school.

The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.

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

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.