Places wavymirror Wants to Go

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A collection of soda memorabilia that spans decades.

The creator of the Kewpie doll's former home has been turned into a museum celebrating her life and work.

Around 50 million gallons of water flow from this spring every day.

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

Nestled in Onondaga State Park, over 100 canoes carefully stacked in a replica of the famous standing stones.

This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.

One of the deepest springs in 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.

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

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

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

Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.

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

An unexpected but incredible collection of wildlife dioramas spanning rainforests, swamps, forests, and plains.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

This is not your typical jungle gym.

A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.

The final resting place of the Hunkpapa Lakota leader Tatanka Iyotaka, commonly known by the English translation Sitting Bull.

Calidum et Deliciose Succosum!

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.