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

One of America's first planned communities is preserved in a state park.

An adorably sweet display of sculpted Precious Moments figurines.

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

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

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

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

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

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

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

The strange and snarky traditions of the lumber industry's fraternal order began with five men waiting for a train here in Arkansas.

The legend of a local monster still haunts this small town.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.

A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.