Places keri125 Wants to Go

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.

Giant works of art interspersed throughout meadows and woodlands offer a new discovery at every turn.

During the 19th-century, this park was a vital trading fort.

A sculpture of a giant man escaping from the depths of the Earth.

One man's unrequited love stands in a glass box forever.

When he found his hometown was no more, Lowell Davis decided to recreate a "new" ghost town from scratch.

An adorably sweet display of sculpted Precious Moments figurines.

A chessmaster's dream destination.

The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.

This majestic tree has survived 400 years of storms, droughts, and floods, and is a beloved natural landmark in Missouri.

Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.

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

The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

This is not your typical jungle gym.

A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.

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

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

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

This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

In the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks at 1,772 feet above sea level, Taum Sauk Mountain is the highest (and possibly oldest) peak in Missouri.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.