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

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

This giant green head remembers one of America's jazz giants.

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.

The van that carried William Least-Heat Moon through the journey documented in the book 'Blue Highways' sits in the Mizzou archeological museum's storage.

This midcentury chapel is a bold architectural statement and a symbol of Indiana's Lutheran heritage.

This tiny historic jail along Route 66 is the perfect fit for exactly one criminal and their partner-in-crime.

This depiction of the earth mother welcomes new life into Aurora Highlands.

One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.

Take a dip in the world's largest mineral hot springs pool.

Even in death, he's still your huckleberry.

A museum documents the development of the invention that tamed the Wild West.

A Kansas grassroots sculptor decorates the local roadways with his sculptures made from found objects.

This 41,000-acre wetland complex is the largest marsh in the interior of the United States.

This historic Ellinwood hotel is also home to underground tunnels that were a popular haunt during Prohibition.

Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

A museum where visitors can learn about greyhounds and (more importantly) pet them.

A wonderful collection of all things Oz is nestled in the heart of Kansas.

A hidden barn-sized rendition of Grant Wood's most famous, and most parodied, painting.

For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.

Evidence from a brutal 1880s murder is on display at this former infirmary house.

The dream home of an iconoclastic renaissance man still stands as a monument to his domestically mundane vision.