The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

A small museum dedicated to the whimsical tool that turns sugar cookies into works of art.

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

Destroyed by flood waters, prison now serves as a training ground for armed forces.

An adorably sweet display of sculpted Precious Moments figurines.

One of the stops along the fateful journey of the Donner Party.

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

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

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

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

The ruins of a 19th century shelter run by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

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

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

An abandoned concrete jungle surrounded by a lush park.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

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

This Italianate Villa-style castle is pretty to look at, just keep off the private property.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.

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

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

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

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.