St. Joseph, Missouri
Jesse James Home Museum
The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.
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St. Joseph, Missouri
The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.
Atchison, Kansas
The first home of the doomed aviator Amelia Earhart.
Atchison, Kansas
The face of the famed flier in a hillside in her hometown.
McLouth, Kansas
A rock that was too big to move, so the town just paved around it.
Weston, Missouri
The oldest bar in Missouri is hidden within a limestone brewery cellar more than 50 feet underground.
Kearney, Missouri
The final resting place of the legendary outlaw.
Liberty, Missouri
The ruins of a 19th century shelter run by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Independence, Missouri
A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.
Kansas City, Missouri
A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.
Kansas City, Missouri
This giant green head remembers one of America's jazz giants.
Kansas City, Missouri
This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.
Kansas City, Kansas
This sacred space and gathering spot for the Wyandot Nation has been the surrounded by controversy and confusion.
Kansas City, Missouri
Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.
Kansas City, Missouri
A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Professional and amateur dioramas, taxidermy, and oddities all located in an attic above a gallery.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This New Orleans boutique and nursery specializes in rare flora, with a focus on carnivorous plants.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The only home of the famous French impressionist painter open to the public is now a museum and bed and breakfast.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This site is dedicated to a candidate for sainthood and contains personal items including his cilice and lead coffin.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This city block-long devotional site, a replica of a famous site in France, is dedicated to the patron saint of grandmothers, mothers, and educators.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.
New Orleans, Louisiana
An artist weaves "wooden quilts" with scraps salvaged from his Katrina-damaged home in Tremé.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This non-profit restaurant offers job training and skills to members of the Central City community.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.