Places tobifrog1 Wants to Go

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

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

An abandoned concrete jungle surrounded by a lush park.

A big museum full of little worlds.

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

The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.

This historic cliffside mansion uses a natural cave for air conditioning.

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.

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

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

In the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks at 1,772 feet above sea level, Taum Sauk Mountain is the highest (and possibly oldest) peak in Missouri.

Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.

This is not your typical jungle gym.

A geological oddity formed by two rivers carving out a mass of limestone on both sides.

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

Erosion and time have created a naturally-formed water park.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

Curious cave that stays a cool 56 degrees all year long.

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

The first home of the doomed aviator Amelia Earhart.

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

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