This modest structure is where noted musician and the Band drummer Levon Helm grew up.

This sandstone marvel of nature is worth a stop along Highway 65.

These springs were once the source of a tourism boom to Sulphur Springs.

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.

A museum devoted to osteopathy and its creator, Andrew Still.

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

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

Destroyed by flood waters, prison now serves as a training ground for armed forces.

This 1854 courthouse along the Mississippi River has a storied history.

Thousands of small machines line the shelves of this personal collection which definitely delivers on its name.

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

A celebration of the animation wizard's childhood home and antique railroad memorabilia collection.

University City's quirkiest resident lives in a park named after its first.

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

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

The oldest bar in Missouri is hidden within a limestone brewery cellar more than 50 feet underground.

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

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

A mysterious light of unknown origin on the backroads of Missouri.

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.

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

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

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.