Places Sarah Finley Wants to Go

The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.

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

A museum dedicated to man's boldest venture.

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

Another in a long tradition of legends regarding infernal seats.

Where the author wrote her beloved "Little House" books.

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

A big museum full of little worlds.

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

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

In the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks at 1,772 feet above sea level, Taum Sauk Mountain is the highest (and possibly oldest) peak in Missouri.

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

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

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

Erosion and time have created a naturally-formed water park.

The world's largest man-made underground caverns offer unparalleled underwater wonders.

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

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

The history of funerals and funerary customs.

An exhibit of items from the mental institution where Mary Todd Lincoln lived after her son conspired to have her committed.

This house renovated by Frank Lloyd Wright was the centerpiece of a lavish 20th-century estate.

This rare female version of the Muffler Man has its clothes removed each summer to signal the start of pool season.

Abraham Lincoln's likeness rests at the top of this giant totem pole.

A former atom smasher turned into an art gallery.