This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.

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

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

A magnificent church designed by world-renowned architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

The golden age of flight captured in a downtown airport.

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

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

This mansion was made famous by its colorful cast of owners and location along the Sante Fe Trail.

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

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

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

The life of one of America's pre-eminent painters is frozen in time in the home where he lived, worked, and died.

The iconic remains of the original Academic Hall that burned down in 1892.

The obelisk meant to mark the founding father's grave at Monticello is actually on the University of Missouri campus.

Famous church recognized for both its unique design and disciplined monks that live according to the Benedictine discipline.

One man's unrequited love stands in a glass box forever.

Giant works of art interspersed throughout meadows and woodlands offer a new discovery at every turn.

One of the world's earliest skyscrapers.

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

This Connecticut ferry has been operating in some form since 1655.

This mausoleum is the final resting place of one of St. Louis's richest and most tragic families.

The first rural cemetery west of the Mississippi is home to the elaborate tombs of St. Louis' local beer barons.