Places peakles kcmo Wants to Go

The only remaining piece of hull of the most decorated US ship of WWII is this giant name plate.

One man's lifelong obsession with death.

The longest of the four remaining covered bridges in Missouri.

One of the deepest springs in Missouri.

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

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

Farms are serving pizza made from their own fresh crops, a growing trend in the American Midwest.

Swim or sail to this pie-slinging boat off the coast of St. Thomas.

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

Though the case is scorched and the buttons half-melted, this hardy handheld gaming device can still run a game of Tetris.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

During the American Revolution, this mansion hosted failed peace talks between the British and Americans.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

Spies, love letters, and ghost stories have all left their mark on this home-cum-museum.

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

The first American home of the isolated, egalitarian religion has a trove of Shaker architecture and artifacts.

This now-abandoned part of the original transcontinental railroad route provides a surreal driving and historical experience.

Outside the Missouri Quilt Museum, this large spool has more than one million yards of thread—and counting.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

High in the Sacramento Mountains, a facility dedicated to studying the sun.

This old army installation has worn many hats throughout its history.

These strange carved boulders in a forested canyon resemble tiny stone villages.

This giant pocket watch is the third iteration of a local landmark that has been standing just off the Santa Fe Plaza for over 100 years.

This abandoned church dominates the landscape of a former mining boomtown.