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Titanic Museum
Branson, Missouri
The doomed ocean liner is taking on passengers on the main strip in Branson.
Precious Moments Park and Chapel
Carthage, Missouri
Sprawling, multi-million-dollar complex attracts fanatical collectors of the adorable angel statuettes, but all fanatics are welcome.
Glore Psychiatric Museum
St. Joseph, Missouri
A giant "human hamster" treadmill is only one of many intriguing displays in a museum that shows how hard it is to make people sane.
Bonne Terre Mine: Billion Gallon Lake
Bonne Terre, Missouri
Lead mine closed in 1962 and reopened as a tourist attraction. Features the World's Largest Subterranean Lake.
Giant Animal Cluster
Bonne Terre, Missouri
It's not often you get the chance to pose with a polka-dot elephant and eyeglasses-wearing pink elephant in the same parking lot. Showroom contains more animals and memorabilia.
World's Largest Ball of Twine
Branson, Missouri
At Ripley's, certified by Guiness, surrounded by other oddities. But the largest?
Military Museums of Fort Leonard Wood
Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
Three free, eclectic museums under one roof: Chemical Corps, MPs, Engineers.
Haunted House on Hill Street Wax Museum
Hannibal, Missouri
Frightening haunted house and even more frightening wax dummies of Mark Twain, his family, and his fictional characters. Strangest attraction in Hannibal.
Fantastic Caverns: Ride-Thru Cave
Springfield, Missouri
See Nature's mostly unspoiled beauty by jeep in "America's Ride-Thru Cave."
Where Jesse James Was Killed
St. Joseph, Missouri
Wild West fans come from far and near to "see the bullet hole" which may or may not have been made by the bullet that took a shortcut through Jesse James' head.
Patee House Museum
St. Joseph, Missouri
Is that a giant ball of string next to a horse-drawn hearse? A display of local murder weapons (including an electric drill) and an exhibit on the World's Tallest Man? Strange things await here.
Wax Museum of St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri
Presidents, biblical figures, celebrities, and a two-basement Chamber of Horrors.
Jesse James Wax Museum
Stanton, Missouri
Jesse James wasn't really shot to death in 1882 -- he died of old age in 1951. Be damned, DNA evidence... we want the truth!
Meramec Caverns
Stanton, Missouri
You don't even reach the mouth of this popular cave until you drive past the Meramec Caverns motel and RV park, and walk past the ice cream stand and huge gift shop.
Uranus
Uranus, Missouri
In the tourist trap town of Uranus, a fudge-shop-out-of-control offers many memorable photo-ops and souvenirs, and a lot of bad Uranus puns.
Space Museum and Gus Grissom Center
Bonne Terre, Missouri
Earl Mullins evangelizes the wonders of space exploration through his museum collection.
World's Largest 20th Century Pecan
Brunswick, Missouri
12 feet long and six solid tons, it's a nutty claim to fame made of custom-painted concrete.
Ruins of Ha Ha Tonka
Camdenton, Missouri
Built by a Kansas City millionaire who died before it was completed. The castle was gutted by fire in 1942.
Big Bender
Dittmer, Missouri
A towing business displays a supersized junk art rendition of Futurama's sociopath robot, Bender. His head alone is a 55 gallon oil drum, to give you a sense of his scale.
The Hall of Waters
Excelsior Springs, Missouri
Elaborate Art Deco temple devoted to the curative power of mineral water. Site of the World's Longest Water Bar, high windows, futurist chandeliers, and polished terrazzo floors.
World's Largest Route 66 Rocking Chair
Fanning, Missouri
Over 42 feet tall. Held the world record 2008-2015, now promoted as the "World's Largest Rocking Chair on Route 66." Despite its demotion to number two, it's still really big.
Hannibal: Twain Town
Hannibal, Missouri
Samuel Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, grew up in Hannibal, and the town works hard to ensure that no visitor ever forgets it.
Buster Brown's Grave
Hornersville, Missouri
A big tombstone for the local little person who became famous as Buster Brown, spokesman for Buster Brown shoes.
Leila's Hair Museum
Independence, Missouri
At Leila's Hair Museum, former hairdresser Leila Cohoon displays her impressive collection of human hair art, as well as hair samples from Presidents Lincoln and (maybe) Truman.
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- Bonne Terre: Space Museum and Gus Grissom Center
- Bonne Terre: Bonne Terre Mine: Billion Gallon Lake
- Bonne Terre: Giant Animal Cluster
- Boonville: Budweiser Clydesdales Ranch [tips]
- Branson: Titanic Museum
- Branson: Mount Rushmore with Fake Celebrity Heads
- Branson: World's Largest Ball of Twine
- Branson: Marvel Cave [tips]
- Branson: World's Largest Rooster [tips]
- Branson: Giant Head of JFK [tips]
- Branson: President Reagan's Big Head [tips]
- Brumley: Swinging Bridges Road [tips]
- Brunswick: World's Largest 20th Century Pecan
- Camdenton: Bridal Cave [tips]
- Camdenton: Ruins of Ha Ha Tonka
- Carthage: Precious Moments Park and Chapel
- Chesterfield: The Awakening - Buried Giant [tips]
- Clarence: 1950s Gas Station With Dummies [tips]
- Diamond: World's Largest Small Electric Appliance Museum [tips]
- Dittmer: Big Bender
- Excelsior Springs: The Hall of Waters
- Fanning: World's Largest Route 66 Rocking Chair
- Fenton: Creepyworld [tips]
- Foristell: Muffler Man [tips]
- Fort Leonard Wood: Military Museums of Fort Leonard Wood
- Hannibal: Mark Twain Cave: Jimmy Carter Guest Book
- Hannibal: Haunted House on Hill Street Wax Museum
- Hannibal: Hannibal: Twain Town
- Hornersville: Buster Brown's Grave
- Hornersville: Spook Light [tips]
- Humphreys: Sleep in a Grain Bin [tips]
- Huntsville: Large Ball of String [tips]
- Independence: Leila's Hair Museum
- Independence: Swirly Rocket Ship Temple
- Jefferson City: Missouri State Penitentiary Tours [tips]
- Jerome: Larry Baggett's Trail of Tears Memorial [tips]
- Kansas City: National World War I Museum
- Kansas City: Negro Leagues Baseball Museum [tips]
- Kansas City: Arabia Steamboat Museum [tips]
- Kansas City: Glass Labyrinth - Outdoor Maze of Glass [tips]
- Kansas City: Man with Shoe in Mouth [tips]
- Kansas City: National Museum of Toys and Miniatures
- Kansas City: Mural: Superman of Kansas City
- Kansas City: 25-Foot-Tall Steel Jesus
- Kearney: Jesse James' Feather Duster of Death
- King City: The Big Pump [tips]
- Lake Ozark: Chief Bagnell and Country Bumpkin: Muffler Men [tips]
- Lake Wappapello: Muffler Man: Chief Wappalese [tips]
- Linn: The Pig Museum
- Marshall: Jim the Wonder Dog Memorial Garden
- New London: Giant Mark Twain
- Noel: Bluff Dwellers Cave: Move 20 Ton Rock with 2 Fingers [tips]
- Overland: Dan's Emerald Forest
- Ozark: Lambert's - Home of Throwed Rolls [tips]
- Pacific: Black Madonna Shrine and Grottoes
- Pacific: Original Monster Truck
- Point Lookout: Ralph Foster Museum: Beverly Hillbillies Car
- Reeds Spring: Talking Rocks Caverns
- Rich Hill: Big Mouth, World's Largest Coal Shovel [tips]
- Rolla: Vacuum Cleaner Museum [tips]
- Sikeston: Lambert's, Home of the Throwed Rolls [tips]
- Springfield: World's Largest Fork
- Springfield: Fantastic Caverns: Ride-Thru Cave
- Springfield: Stand Where a Man Was Killed by Wild Bill Hickok
- Springfield: Wonders of Wildlife
- Springfield: Muffler Man Chef [tips]
- St. Joseph: Glore Psychiatric Museum
- St. Joseph: Where Jesse James Was Killed
- St. Joseph: Patee House Museum
- St. Joseph: Jesse James' Corpse Basket - Funeral Museum
- St. Joseph: Walter Cronkite Interactive Memorial [tips]
- St. Louis: City Museum
- St. Louis: Wax Museum of St. Louis
- St. Louis: Big Eyeball [tips]
- St. Louis: Giant Concrete Turtle Park [tips]
- St. Louis: Museum of Transportation: Bobby Darin's Car of the Future [tips]
- St. Louis: Chuck Berry Statue
- St. Louis: Budweiser Brewery Tour [tips]
- St. Louis: World's Largest Chess Piece [tips]
- St. Louis: Griot Museum of Black History
- St. Louis: Snake Man
- St. Louis: Monkey Man
- St. Louis: Empty Suit
- St. Louis: Demo Man [tips]
- St. Louis: Looking Up: 33-Foot-Tall Alien [tips]
- Stanton: Jesse James Wax Museum
- Stanton: Meramec Caverns
- Steelville: Canoe Art in Missouri's Floating Capital
- Sumner: Maxie, World's Largest Goose
- Uranus: Uranus
- Warrensburg: Strange Steel Drum Family [tips]
- Weldon Spring: Nuclear Waste Adventure Trail
- Weston: Largest Ball Of String, Not Twine