Places peakles kcmo Wants to Go

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

Many of the murals covering this sleepy Florida town hide some sort of intentional error.

This institution celebrates the happy accidents of uncommon sticktoitiveness.

An infamous former prison is now a biodiverse national park.

The oldest building in the District of Columbia was preserved because of a mistaken connection to George Washington.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

Under some of the darkest skies east of the Mississippi, this park invites you to look up into the Milky Way.

This technicolor classic diner is known for its nine-pound banana splits and retro flair.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

Listen to the sounds of the Earth moving along the Rose Canyon Fault.

This vintage "streetcar boat" lay at the bottom of Lake Minnetonka until the 1980s.

Indiana's oldest sternwheel paddleboat has been plying the placid waters of Webster Lake for 90 years.

This is the last hand-cranked chain ferry of its kind in operation in the United States.

An indoor botanical garden for tropical plants looks like a giant cylinder lying on its side.

A memorial to victims of the Oklahoma City bombing.

The largest cattle market on earth holds live auctions open to the public every week.

This 1930s-era Route 66 Tulsa landmark was moved, restored, and filled with neon.

Oklahoma City's oldest arcade has reinvented itself as a competitive pinball mecca.

Come for the fried chicken, stay for the history at Oklahoma's oldest bar.

Very likely the only museum in the world that celebrates the glory of the humble banjo.