Places nataliebopp Wants to Go

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

Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.

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

A mysterious light of unknown origin on the backroads of Missouri.

The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

This is not your typical jungle gym.

Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.

This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.

A geological oddity formed by two rivers carving out a mass of limestone on both sides.

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

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

400 million-year old limestone caverns nestled in the Ozarks served as shelter and a hideout for cultures throughout North American history.

The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.

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

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.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

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

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

Walk through row upon row of manicured miniature trees at the United States' largest bonsai nursery.

Florida’s half-sized replica of the Vietnam Veterans Wall.