Pizza with a side of fine art.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

One of America's first planned communities is preserved in a state park.

This historic cliffside mansion uses a natural cave for air conditioning.

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.

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

In the loving memory of a tragically deceased role-player this Illinois park is decked out with both dungeons and dragons.

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

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.

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

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

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

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

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

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

The world's longest known cave system.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.