Plattsburg, Missouri
Grave of David Rice Atchison
The man who was president for only one day and spent most of it asleep.
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Plattsburg, Missouri
The man who was president for only one day and spent most of it asleep.
Dora, Missouri
A version of this picturesque mill has existed since the 1800s.
Winona, Missouri
This small turbine mill along Rocky Creek was built in 1928
Van Buren, Missouri
Often referred to as the largest spring in America.
Ellington, Missouri
One of the deepest springs in Missouri.
Fredericktown, Missouri
These pink granite water slides are the result of millions of years of erosion.
Leasburg, Missouri
Nestled in Onondaga State Park, over 100 canoes carefully stacked in a replica of the famous standing stones.
Lebanon, Missouri
Away from the crowds of fishing enthusiasts, take a hike deep into the woods and journey into an eerie darkness.
Knob Noster, Missouri
The only remaining Cold War–era Minuteman II missile control center in Missouri.
St. Louis, Missouri
One of few surviving standpipe water towers in the U.S.
Defiance, Missouri
Who said a biker bar is no place for a taxidermy squirrel collection?
Bonne Terre, Missouri
A museum dedicated to man's boldest venture.
Sumner, Missouri
This 40-foot fowl marks the so-called "wild goose capital of the world."
Kansas City, Missouri
Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.
Columbia, Missouri
Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.
Sedalia, Missouri
This historic cliffside mansion uses a natural cave for air conditioning.
Ironton, Missouri
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.
St. Louis, Missouri
What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.
Iron Township, Missouri
Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.
Lesterville, Missouri
Erosion and time have created a naturally-formed water park.
Ridgedale, Missouri
If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.
Bonne Terre, Missouri
The world's largest man-made underground caverns offer unparalleled underwater wonders.
Jadwin, Missouri
Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.
Camdenton, Missouri
European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.