Places peakles kcmo Wants to Go

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

A beautiful Gilded Age hotel in the White Mountains with surprising diplomatic history.

Final resting places of a husband and wife who became famous for their claims of extraterrestrial abduction.

Pick up a kebab and a credenza at this unique combination furniture store and café.

Over 600 vacuum cleaners stack the shelves of what may be the cleanest museum in America.

See the world's biggest spool of thread, along with the largest collection of sewing machines.

The oldest soda fountain in St. Louis has been serving up treats for more than a century.

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

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

This century-old confectioner's outlet store was plucked right out of the Seattle World's Fair.

A 1940s nuclear reactor built to produce plutonium for the Manhattan Project.

One of the oldest continually operating drinking establishments west of the Mississippi.

A comprehensive collection of bonsai set in a beautiful campus.

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

In this subterranean brick arcade, a small shop continues the ancient practice of bookbinding.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

What was once a communal kitchen now serves heaping portions of hearty German fare.