Places Nox Wants to Go

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

When he found his hometown was no more, Lowell Davis decided to recreate a "new" ghost town from scratch.

After miraculously surviving a giant flood, the 19th-century nut tree and its offspring are protected with their own tiny park.

Two Ming Dynasty lion statues guard the entrance to the journalism school.

A subterranean haunt where wine and homemade biscottis are always on the menu.

The oldest bar in Missouri is hidden within a limestone brewery cellar more than 50 feet underground.

One of few surviving standpipe water towers in the U.S.

This art deco masterpiece was once a miracle spring mecca but is now simply a government office building.

University City's quirkiest resident lives in a park named after its first.

This 40-foot fowl marks the so-called "wild goose capital of the world."

This historic early-20th-century building still boasts some of its original features.

This century-old painting of a portly 10-foot-tall man spent years hidden behind plaster.

The oldest house in Lindsborg, Kansas, includes some fascinating inscriptions.

Journey up the capitol building's cupola for an amazing view of Topeka.

This 41,000-acre wetland complex is the largest marsh in the interior of the United States.

A chessmaster's dream destination.

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

This majestic tree has survived 400 years of storms, droughts, and floods, and is a beloved natural landmark in Missouri.

A unique blue and yellow phone booth in America's "Little Sweden."

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

The world’s largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian aircraft got its start in a poultry building.

A museum where visitors can learn about greyhounds and (more importantly) pet them.

This Wild West attraction is probably more fiction than history, but that doesn't mean it's not awesome.

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.