Symbolic attempt to overcome the issues of life.

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

A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.

A floating museum that was sunk by a flood and left to rot in the tides.

A plaque on the side of a parking garage marks the burial place of a great Ottawa chief.

This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.

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

This "little gallery in the middle of nowhere" is housed in a 170-year-old horse barn in the Missouri Ozarks.

The man who was president for only one day and spent most of it asleep.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

Twenty-year effort to raise a castle using tools and techniques from the 13th century is now abandoned in the Arkansas woods.

Peak named for an old man who liked to run in the nude.

The creator of the Kewpie doll's former home has been turned into a museum celebrating her life and work.

Lined with plaques and tributes to veterans, this patriotic street was founded by Mexican immigrants.

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

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

In an alley not far from where two great highways meet, byways of a very different sort are honored.

The longest of the four remaining covered bridges in Missouri.

One of the first historical sites of an alternative universe was installed in the town of Paris, Illinois—which is now home to an annual spelling bee of Kcymaerxthaereal words.

Patrick Dougherty's fantastic living tree sculptures, mind-blowing but temporary.

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

An abandoned observatory in the middle of the Illinois prairie.

This abandoned 19th century orphanage started as a boarding school for children of Civil War veterans.

An underground river pushes more than 200 million gallons out of this Missouri spring every day.