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Featured Attractions
Leila's Hair Museum
Independence, Missouri
Housed at the Victorian Hairwork Society, it's a personal collection of hair wreaths and human hair art.
Titanic: World's Largest Museum Attraction
Branson, Missouri
The doomed ocean liner is taking on passengers on the main strip in Branson.
Fantastic Caverns
Springfield, Missouri
See Nature's mostly unspoiled beauty by jeep in "America's Ride-Thru Cave."
Meramec Caverns
Stanton, Missouri
Popular commercial cave, a hideout of Jesse James, and a place where you can see an American Flag projected onto a limestone wall.
Veterans Memorial Museum
Branson, Missouri
A detailed collection of war booty, veteran memorabilia, and the world's largest bronze war memorial sculpture.
Precious Moments Inspirational Park
Carthage, Missouri
Sprawling, multi-million-dollar complex attracts fanatical collectors of the adorable angel statuettes, but all fanatics are welcome.
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Landmarks and Oddities List
Vacation Favorites
Notable places we've visited or heard about.
- Branson: Giant Fiddle and Banjo
- Branson: Segway: Feel The Excitement
- Branson: Titanic Museum
- Branson: Veterans Memorial Museum
- Branson West: Predator World
- Brunswick: World's Largest Pecan
- Carthage: Marlin Perkins Statue
- Carthage: Precious Moments Chapel
- Charleston: Boomland [tips]
- Chillicothe: Home of Sliced Bread
- Columbia: Beetle Bailey Statue [tips]
- Defiance: Daniel Boone's Grave?
- Eureka: Black Madonna of Czestochowja Shrine and Grotto [tips]
- Excelsior Springs: Hall of Waters
- Fort Leonard Wood: Temporary Buildings of World War II [tips]
- Hannibal: Mark Twain Cave [tips]
- Hornersville: Buster Brown's Grave [tips]
- Hornersville: Spook Light [tips]
- Hornet: Tri-state Spook Light [tips]
- Independence: Hair Museum
- Kansas City: World's Largest Shuttlecocks [tips]
- Kearney: Jesse James Homestead [tips]
- King City: Giant Gas Pump [tips]
- Marionville: White Squirrel Capital of the World
- Marshall: Jim the Wonder Dog Park
- Plattsburg: President for a Day
- Point Lookout: Beverly Hillbillies Car, Ralph Foster Museum
- Richland: Caveman Barbecue [tips]
- Rolla: Stubby Stonehenge | Stonehenge Roundup.
- Sikeston: Home of Throwed Rolls, Lambert's Cafe [tips]
- St. Joseph: Glore Psychiatric Museum
- St. Joseph: Heaton-Bowman-Smith and Sidenfaden Chapel Funeral Museum
- St. Joseph: Patee House Museum
- St. Joseph: Prince Eric of Sunbeam
- St. Joseph: Where Jesse James was Killed [tips]
- St. Louis: Giant Shoe made of Shoes [tips]
- St. Louis: City Museum [tips]
- Springfield: Bass Pro Shops
- Springfield: Big Fork
- Springfield: Fantastic Caverns
- Stanton: Jesse James Didn't Die!
- Stanton: Meramec Caverns
- Sumner: World's Largest Goose
- Warrensburg: Old Drum
- Webb City: Giant Praying Hands [MegaMessiahs]
- Weldon Spring: Nuclear Waste Adventure Trail [tips]
- Weston: World's Largest Ball Of String
