Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near Missouri

While in Missouri, you might enjoy a visit to:

Opened as an attraction in 1912. Ghostlike statues of old man Mark Twain stand in the rooms of his boyhood home behind plexiglass walls. It's different.
~1 miles from Hannibal.

About two dozen murals feature historic scenes painted on otherwise blank walls of this river town. Find the one with the mural painter on a ladder. What ho! He's not real!
~25 miles from Hannibal.

In Griggsville, signs claim that Purple Martins eat 2,000 mosquitoes a day... and they live in luxury bird condo high-rises in town. Coincidence that purple martin houses are manufactured here?
~35 miles from Hannibal.

The dry-docked George M. Verity can be toured during the summer. The 1927 stern paddle boat will never again slap its way along the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.
~47 miles from Hannibal.

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