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The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri
There are a number of advantages to keeping things underground. The temperature remains near constant; energy costs are lowered; and—in the massive, 55,000,000-square-foot space known as... »
Natural Wonders, Geological Oddities, Curious Caves, Architectural Oddities, Subterranean Sites | Edited by Dylan and wythe
Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants
About 1.5 billion years ago, hot magma cooled forming coarsely crystalline red granite, which later weathered into huge, rounded boulders. Standing atop a granite outcrop, one of the largest... »
Martian Landscapes, Geological Oddities | Edited by Dylan
The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum
Located in St. Joseph, Missouri the Glore Psychiatric Museum depicts the 130-year history of the State Lunatic Asylum No. 2 and the overall evolution of the treatment of mental illness. The museum... »
Medical Museums | Edited by Kalia_K
A holy finger sits in a Kansas City art museum
Located in the depths of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is a case filled with silver relics of Christianity. One item in particular is intriguing but only if you read the little sign next to the... »
Relics and Reliquaries | Edited by Dylan
Steamboat sunk in 1856, recovered from a field 132 years later with the cargo still intact
The Steamboat Arabia was built in Pennsylvania in 1853 and spent three years shuttling passengers and cargo through the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, back when rivers were the super-highways of... »
Unique Collections | Edited by M Rebekah Otto
A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art
Leila Cohoon’s Hair Museum in Independence, Missouri displays 159 wreaths and more than 2,000 pieces of jewelry made out of human hair. Though turning hair into wreaths was something of a... »
Unique Collections, Memento Mori | Edited by Josh, Dylan and 2 others
A museum devoted to osteopathy and its creator, Andrew Still
Dr. Andrew Still coined the term osteopathy in 1874, emphasizing the role of the musculoskeletal system in health and disease. Though osteopathy is occasionally used in medicine as a complementary... »
Medical Museums | Edited by Dylan and Henry
