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.

The life of one of America's pre-eminent painters is frozen in time in the home where he lived, worked, and died.

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

Three markers installed over the course of 140 years mark the point where Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma converge.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

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

A sculpture of a giant man escaping from the depths of the Earth.

These pink granite water slides are the result of millions of years of erosion.

One of the deepest springs in Missouri.

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

The ruins of a 19th century shelter run by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

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

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

A subterranean haunt where wine and homemade biscottis are always on the menu.