Ridgedale, Missouri
Bat Bar in Lost Canyon Cave
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.
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Ridgedale, Missouri
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.
Marble Falls Township, Arkansas
A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.
St. Louis, Missouri
Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.
St. Louis, Missouri
A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.
Hot Springs, Arkansas
This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.
Kansas City, Missouri
Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.
Kingston, Arkansas
This impressive ledge seems to float above the Upper Buffalo Wilderness.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
An extravagant western hotel where every floor is the "ground floor."
Beaver, Arkansas
Sometimes called the “Little Golden Gate," this bright yellow structure is the last driveable suspension bridge in Arkansas.
Jefferson City, Missouri
The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."
Camdenton, Missouri
European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.
Iron Township, Missouri
Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.
West Mineral, Kansas
The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.
Picher, Oklahoma
This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.
Joplin, Missouri
A mysterious light of unknown origin on the backroads of Missouri.
Carthage, Missouri
When he found his hometown was no more, Lowell Davis decided to recreate a "new" ghost town from scratch.
Springfield, Missouri
The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.
Springfield, Missouri
Creativity is far from extinct in Missouri, and this painted dinosaur is no exception!