A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

The house is an iconic pilgrimage site for fans of the Illinois-based emo band.

This forgotten boat elevator was an engineering marvel in its heyday.

A retro walk through the history of the tube.

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 mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.