After miraculously surviving a giant flood, the 19th-century nut tree and its offspring are protected with their own tiny park.

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

This "little gallery in the middle of nowhere" is housed in a 170-year-old horse barn in the Missouri Ozarks.

One of few surviving standpipe water towers in the U.S.

Famous church recognized for both its unique design and disciplined monks that live according to the Benedictine discipline.

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

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

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

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

This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.

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

The Old Courthouse takes visitors on a captivating trip through St. Louis' timeline.

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

Another in a long tradition of legends regarding infernal seats.

An abandoned concrete jungle surrounded by a lush park.

Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.

The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."

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

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

A cave 150 feet beneath Kansas City is the perfect climate for growing 10,000 delicate orchids.

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

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.

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

This is not your typical jungle gym.