Places randywoakes Wants to Go

An adorably sweet display of sculpted Precious Moments figurines.

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

The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.

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

This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.

The Magic House provides a beautiful and creative environment for curious youngsters to get their knowledge on.

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

Entombed in this strange, white stone hill are the deadly remains of radioactive weapons production.

The ruins of a 19th century shelter run by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

This historic motel standing at the "crossroads of America" offers a radio in every room and was saved by local protesters.

An abandoned concrete jungle surrounded by a lush park.

The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

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

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.

The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."

A mysterious light of unknown origin on the backroads of Missouri.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

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.