Places lostincmo Wants to Go

A flat slab of stone perched hundreds of feet above the Gasconade River in the northern Ozark mountains.

The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.

This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.

This monument marks the point where Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri intersect.

Creativity is far from extinct in Missouri, and this painted dinosaur is no exception!

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

Vintage neon signs illuminate highway history.

Everything good comes from Uranus

The bridge continues the legacy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policy.

Hike the ruins of a zoo that was shut down by an unsolved murder.

Beginning as a white quartz gravel mine in the early 20th century, it was turned into a Christian-themed tunnel to present the core messages of the faith.

A slab of sandstone covered with mysterious 1,000-year-old rock carvings from a vanished North American culture.

Circleville is seriously smitten with this giant gourd.

A local cafe and concert venue occupy a 1913 school house.

Built around 1845, this house was occupied for 100 years, serving as a home to a prosecuting attorney, a Union Civil War general, and a wealthy socialite.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

How did a massive marine arthropod find its way to landlocked Ohio?

An abandoned munitions factory with a shot tower continues to wage war on the surrounding environment.

A castle built by an eccentric medieval enthusiast in suburban Ohio.

What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?

This rusted car found in Petrified Forest National Park's Route 66 exhibit may be the most photographed abandoned car in the country.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

A nature and cultural preserve named for its multitude of petroglyphs carved by the Northern Sinagua people.

A small canyon with petroglyphs and a seasonal waterfall, only a short hike from the remnants of old Route 66.