The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

This museum is a music lover's introduction to the iconic venue.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

A symbol of Texas pride.

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.

The oldest bar in Missouri is hidden within a limestone brewery cellar more than 50 feet underground.

Some say that the battle fought at this Kansas site in 1856 was the first unofficial battle of the American Civil War.

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

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

This Kansas City studio was home to Walt Disney's first animation business.

Undone by Prohibition, this abandoned brewery-turned-flour mill is now ready for its third act.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

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

The golden age of flight captured in a downtown airport.

This striking observation tower shaped like a spinnaker sail is the newest icon in historic Portsmouth.

The oldest working mechanical clock in the world.