Places Klyse Wants to Go

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.

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

A big museum full of little worlds.

The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.

A mysterious light of unknown origin on the backroads of Missouri.

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

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

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

A geological oddity formed by two rivers carving out a mass of limestone on both sides.

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

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

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

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

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

The LSU mascot lived on the college campus in one of the most impressive tiger habitats in the country.

A miscalculation turns a very shallow freshwater lake into a very deep saltwater lake.

Roadside attraction with more than 1,000 stuffed and mounted animal skins displayed in simulated natural habitats with hand-painted backdrops.

A calm and comfortable place to hang out with cats and kittens up for adoption.

A 19th-century Gothic, castle-like statehouse by the Mississippi River.