Places Tinker Belle Wants to Go

Outside the Missouri Quilt Museum, this large spool has more than one million yards of thread—and counting.

This spot in St. Louis, marked with a simple sign, has seen more pro baseball than just about anywhere else in the world.

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

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

A 40-foot waterfall flows into this unique natural swimming hole.

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

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

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

These pink granite water slides are the result of millions of years of erosion.

This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.

Another in a long tradition of legends regarding infernal seats.

A museum dedicated to man's boldest venture.

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

An abandoned factory along the Mississippi coated by a giant mural.

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

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

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

A sculpture of a giant man escaping from the depths of the Earth.

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

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

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

Three markers installed over the course of 140 years mark the point where Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma converge.

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

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.