Places tavtapp Wants to Go

Thousands of small machines line the shelves of this personal collection which definitely delivers on its name.

This art deco masterpiece was once a miracle spring mecca but is now simply a government office building.

This "little gallery in the middle of nowhere" is housed in a 170-year-old horse barn in the Missouri Ozarks.

Who said a biker bar is no place for a taxidermy squirrel collection?

A small town garden is dedicated to a psychic dog with the most soulful eyes.

The only pig museum in the U.S. holds one of the world's largest collections of pig items.

University City's quirkiest resident lives in a park named after its first.

The man who was president for only one day and spent most of it asleep.

An adorably sweet display of sculpted Precious Moments figurines.

This pristinely abandoned filling station on the edge of a graveyard is populated solely by unsettling mannequins.

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

This wooded grove of beautiful hand-built stone grottos is a hidden gem within a shuttered Franciscan monastery.

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

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

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

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

A museum dedicated to man's boldest venture.

The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.

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

A small museum dedicated to the whimsical tool that turns sugar cookies into works of art.

Another in a long tradition of legends regarding infernal seats.

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

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

Where the author wrote her beloved "Little House" books.