Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near Missouri

While in Missouri, you might enjoy a visit to:

Sculptures by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. Art or eyesores? Whatever; they're giant and they're scattered across an art museum's lawn.
~34 miles from Odessa.

Anti-booze crusader Carrie Nation is buried in the Belton cemetery, and artifacts are displayed in a one-room museum. Bonus: the hearse that carried Carry!
~34 miles from Odessa.

12 feet long and six solid tons, it's a nutty claim to fame made of custom-painted concrete.
~56 miles from Odessa.

A big bruiser of a sphere, 19 feet around, from a time when people mailed packages tied with thin postal string.
~58 miles from Odessa.

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