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.
~12 miles from Unity Village.

Jesse James was not known as a homebody, but according to this attraction he was dusting his parlor when he was cut down by a coward's bullet.
~31 miles from Unity Village.

A big bruiser of a sphere, 19 feet around, from a time when people mailed packages tied with thin postal string.
~42 miles from Unity Village.

When he was in Kansas, the 19th century militant abolitionist lived here and shot at people outside. The old cabin is preserved from the elements inside of another, more recent, building.
~43 miles from Unity Village.

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