Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

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

The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

The Old Courthouse takes visitors on a captivating trip through St. Louis' timeline.

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

The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.

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

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

This small museum contains fossils from an era when Kansas was underwater.

Once an ancient sea, this landscape of rocky ravines is filled with the fossils of ancient marine life.

The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.

Curious rock formations in a tiny Kansas state park.

A mysterious and terrifying public art goblin seemingly meant to inspire local legend.

The first "Hut" was actually a small brick building.

Why settle for barbecue chips when you can get actual barbecue?

Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

These elevated trucks were put in place as a middle finger to The Man, but are now considered folk art.

One of the Eight Wonders of Kansas and the first official National Natural Monument these stark formations look like nature's Stonehenge.