Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

Yup, that's where the name came from.

Ernest Hemingway wrote a good portion of "A Farewell to Arms" while living with the parents of his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer.

The Man In Black grew up in a large agrarian community established by the federal government in the Great Depression.

This quirky Arkansas wax museum does not shy away from the macabre and the grotesque.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

The oldest soda fountain in St. Louis has been serving up treats for more than a century.

Hundreds of graffiti artists have decorated this flood-wall on the west bank of the Mississippi River.

Savor the famous tempura-fried pork tenderloin sandwich at this long-standing Kansas City food counter.

This mausoleum is the final resting place of one of St. Louis's richest and most tragic families.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

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

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.

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

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

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

During the 19th-century, this park was a vital trading fort.

An adorably sweet display of sculpted Precious Moments figurines.