Springfield, Missouri
World's Largest Fork
A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.
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Springfield, Missouri
A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.
St. Louis, Missouri
A big museum full of little worlds.
St. Louis, Missouri
An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.
Columbia, Missouri
Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.
Kansas City, Missouri
Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.
Jefferson City, Missouri
The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."
Independence, Missouri
A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.
Iron Township, Missouri
Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.
Kansas City, Missouri
The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.
Bonne Terre, Missouri
The world's largest man-made underground caverns offer unparalleled underwater wonders.
Lesterville, Missouri
Erosion and time have created a naturally-formed water park.
Kansas City, Missouri
This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.
Jadwin, Missouri
Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.
Haleyville, Alabama
148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.
Fackler, Alabama
This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.
Montevallo, Alabama
Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.
Delta, Alabama
The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.
Wheeling, West Virginia
This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.
Parowan, Utah
Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.
Marble Canyon, Arizona
Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.
Supai, Arizona
This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.
Boston, Massachusetts
A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.