Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

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

Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.

This unassuming riverbank is Missouri’s first designated site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.

This mausoleum is the final resting place of one of St. Louis's richest and most tragic families.

This spot in St. Louis, marked with a simple sign, has seen more pro baseball than just about anywhere else in the world.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

A plaque on the side of a parking garage marks the burial place of a great Ottawa chief.

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

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

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

Famous church recognized for both its unique design and disciplined monks that live according to the Benedictine discipline.

Entombed in this strange, white stone hill are the deadly remains of radioactive weapons production.

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

After miraculously surviving a giant flood, the 19th-century nut tree and its offspring are protected with their own tiny park.

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

The modest, restored home of the legendary ragtime musician John William "Blind" Boone.

The obelisk meant to mark the founding father's grave at Monticello is actually on the University of Missouri campus.

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

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

Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

This mansion was made famous by its colorful cast of owners and location along the Sante Fe Trail.

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.