Des Moines, Iowa
Zombie Burger + Drink Lab
This zombie-themed restaurant stands out in the heart of corn country.
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Des Moines, Iowa
This zombie-themed restaurant stands out in the heart of corn country.
Villisca, Iowa
This seemingly charming home memorializes and honors the victims of a century-old unsolved murder.
St. Louis, Missouri
One of few surviving standpipe water towers in the U.S.
University City, Missouri
University City's quirkiest resident lives in a park named after its first.
Kansas City, Missouri
A cave 150 feet beneath Kansas City is the perfect climate for growing 10,000 delicate orchids.
St. Louis, Missouri
A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.
Chesterfield, Missouri
A sculpture of a giant man escaping from the depths of the Earth.
Gallatin, Missouri
A Mormon place of exile in Missouri.
Ste. Genevieve, Missouri
A subterranean haunt where wine and homemade biscottis are always on the menu.
Independence, Missouri
A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.
Caledonia, Missouri
This "little gallery in the middle of nowhere" is housed in a 170-year-old horse barn in the Missouri Ozarks.
Florissant, Missouri
A wax effigy of St. Valentine hides one of the saint's relics.
Creve Coeur, Missouri
Famous church recognized for both its unique design and disciplined monks that live according to the Benedictine discipline.
Eureka, Missouri
This wooded grove of beautiful hand-built stone grottos is a hidden gem within a shuttered Franciscan monastery.
Ridgedale, Missouri
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.
Independence, Missouri
This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.
Cuba, Missouri
The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.
Kirksville, Missouri
Another in a long tradition of legends regarding infernal seats.
Kansas City, Missouri
A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.
Springfield, Missouri
An unexpected but incredible collection of wildlife dioramas spanning rainforests, swamps, forests, and plains.
St. Louis, Missouri
Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.
St. Louis, Missouri
A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.
Kansas City, Missouri
An abandoned concrete jungle surrounded by a lush park.
Kansas City, Missouri
Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.