Missouri Attractions and Oddities
All the weird attractions, hidden sights, and unusual places in Missouri. Visitor Tips, news, stories, field reports. City roadtrip recommendations: Branson | Hannibal | Kansas City | Saint Louis | Springfield
Also see: Gone But Not Forgotten - Closed classic attractions
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Affton: Big School Ice Cream Cone
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Akers: Welch Spring Hospital Ruins
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Belleview: Elephant Rocks
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Belton: Carry Nation Museum, Hearse
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Belton: Carry Nation's Grave
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Blue Springs: World's Shortest St. Patrick's Day Parade
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Bonne Terre: Bonne Terre Mine: Billion Gallon Lake
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Bonne Terre: Lead Miner Statue
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Bonne Terre: Nike Missile
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Bonne Terre: Space Museum and Grissom Center
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Boonville: Budweiser Clydesdales Ranch
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Boonville: Old Jail
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Branson: Big Chair
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Branson: Branson Scenic Railway - Vintage Train Tour
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Branson: Dinosaur Canyon Golf
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Branson: Giant Camera and Hands
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Branson: Giant Fiddle and Banjo
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Branson: Giant Head of JFK
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Branson: Giant Meatball and Fork
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Branson: Giant Silver Octopus
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Branson: God and Country Inspirational Gardens
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Branson: Marvel Cave
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Branson: Mount Rushmore with Fake Celebrity Heads
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Branson: President Reagan's Big Head
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Branson: Shoot for the Stars Mini Golf
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Branson: The Baldknobbers
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Branson: Titanic Museum
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Branson: Veterans Memorial Museum
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Branson: World's Largest Ball of Twine
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Branson: World's Largest Roll of Toilet Paper
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Branson: World's Largest Rooster
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Branson: World's Largest Toy Museum
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Brunswick: Former World's Largest Pecan
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Butler: Max: Reality TV Cartoony Cowboy
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Butler: Mini Statue of Liberty
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Camdenton: Bridal Cave
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Camdenton: Ruins of Ha Ha Tonka
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Canton: Remember When Toy Museum
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Cape Girardeau: Taft Mural: Visit Us Again
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Cape Girardeau: World's Largest Fountain Drink Cup
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Carterville: SuperTAM on 66: Superman Memorabilia
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Carthage: Alice in Wonderland Statue
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Carthage: Crapduster
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Carthage: Marlin Perkins Statue
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Carthage: Precious Moments Park and Chapel
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Carthage: Red Oak II - Transplanted Town
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Carthage: Tire Changing Woman
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Cassville: Home of the White-Gray Squirrels
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Center: Jim Brown's Gas Station
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Centralia: Larry Vennard's Metal Dinosaurs
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Charleston: Boomland
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Chesterfield: Big Butterfly and Caterpillar
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Chesterfield: The Awakening - Buried Giant
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Chillicothe: Fighter Jet on a Pole
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Chillicothe: Home of Sliced Bread
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Clarence: 1950s Gas Station With Dummies
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Clayton: Big Shoe Made of Shoes
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Clayton: Terminator Cube
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Cleveland: Muffler Man
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Columbia: Bronze Beetle Bailey
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Conway: Rest Stops: Route 66 in Miniature
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Craig: Toilet Yard Art
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Cuba: 1870s Train Replica on a Wall
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Cuba: Cowcatcher Seat
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Cuba: Oldest Continuously Operating Motel on Route 66
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Cuba: Osage Trail Legacy Monument
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Cuba: Route 66 Mural City
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Cuba: Shoes of the World's Tallest Man
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De Soto: Big Pink Pig Named Floyd
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Desoto: Rat Fink and Sinclair Dino Mural
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Devil's Elbow: Devil's Elbow Bridge
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Diamond: George Washington Carver's Talking Bust
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Diamond: World's Largest Small Electric Appliance Museum
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Dittmer: Big Bender
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Doniphan: Frogs Shooting Pool
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Eagleville: Buffalo Hunt - Metal Silhouettes
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Easley: BoatHenge
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Edgar Springs: 2000 U.S. Population Center
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Edgar Springs: 2000 U.S. Population Center Sign
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El Dorado Springs: Healing Spring of the Osage
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Everton: Gay Parita Route 66 Sinclair Station
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Excelsior Springs: The Hall of Waters
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Fanning: Route 66 Red Rocker
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Fayette: Stephens Museum - Boone Gravestone, Big Game, Extinction
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Fenton: Big Pink Elephant
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Fenton: Creepyworld
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Foristell: Muffler Man
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Fort Leonard Wood: Military Museums of Fort Leonard Wood
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Fort Leonard Wood: Statue of a Sapper
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Fort Leonard Wood: Temporary Buildings of World War II
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Fulton: Auto World Museum
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Fulton: National Churchill Museum and Berlin Wall Pieces
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Galena: The Y Bridge
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Gladden: Gladden - A Tiny Town
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Golden City: Tiny Church
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Golden: Golden Pioneer Museum
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Gravois Mills: Cup Tree and Shoe Fence
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Greenwood: Monkey Island
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Hamilton: J.C. Penney Museum
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Hannibal: Hannibal: Twain Town
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Hannibal: Karlock Cars and Pop Culture Museum
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Hannibal: Large Mug of Root Beer
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Hannibal: Mark Twain Boyhood Home
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Hannibal: Mark Twain Cave: Jimmy Carter Guest Book
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Hannibal: Mark Twain Lighthouse Lit by Presidents
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Hannibal: Mark Twain Museum
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Hannibal: Mark Twain Statue
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Hannibal: Mark Twain, Riverboat Pilot
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Hannibal: Sci-Fi Movie Stars Made of Car Parts
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Hannibal: Tom Sawyer's Fence
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Hannibal: Tom and Huck Statue
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Hannibal: Unsinkable Molly Brown Museum
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Hartville: 2020 U.S. Population Center
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Hermann: Hermann the German
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Hermann: Steamboat Memorial
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Hornersville: Buster Brown's Grave
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Hornersville: Spook Light
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Humphreys: Sleep in a Grain Bin
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Huntsville: Large Ball of String
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Imperial: 15-Foot-Tall Bowling Pin
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Independence: 1859 Jail Museum
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Independence: Grave of Jim Bridger
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Independence: Jim Bridger Statue: Frontier Trails Museum
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Independence: Swirly Rocket Ship Temple
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Independence: Truman Presidential Library
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Jameson: Adam and Eve Lived Here
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Jefferson City: Bonnie and Clyde Shootout Souvenirs
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Jefferson City: Head of Rush Limbaugh, Famous Missourian
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Jefferson City: Kraken: Poolside Sea Monster
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Jefferson City: Missouri State Penitentiary Tours
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Jefferson City: Veterinary Museum
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Jerome: Larry Baggett's Trail of Tears Memorial
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Joplin: 2011 EF-5 Tornado Memorial
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Joplin: Big Bronze Dog at Dog Food Factory
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Joplin: Bonnie and Clyde Ambush Apartment
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Joplin: Bonnie and Clyde Ambush Relics
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Joplin: National Cookie Cutter Historical Museum
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Joplin: Route 66 Mural Park
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Joplin: Undercliff Grill and Bar
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Joplin: Volkswagen Beetle Hydrant Crash
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Kahoka: Tiny Church
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Kansas City: 12th St and Vine: Kansas City
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Kansas City: 25-Foot-Tall Penguin and Kangaroo
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Kansas City: 25-Foot-Tall Steel Jesus
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Kansas City: Air Roasted DC-3 Takeoff
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Kansas City: Arabia Steamboat Museum
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Kansas City: Art and Mini-Golf
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Kansas City: Atomic Truman
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Kansas City: Big Bull on a Pylon, Dedicated by Ike
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Kansas City: Big Green Head of Charlie Parker
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Kansas City: Big Spider Sculpture
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Kansas City: Bonnie and Clyde Tourist Cabin Shootout
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Kansas City: Buffalo Skeleton
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Kansas City: Castle Northmoor
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Kansas City: Entire City Block of Giant Books
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Kansas City: Gates BBQ Tuxedo Man
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Kansas City: Glass Labyrinth - Outdoor Maze of Glass
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Kansas City: Large Needle and Button
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Kansas City: Man with Shoe in Mouth
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Kansas City: Meals Delivered by Model Train
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Kansas City: Mini-Baseball Diamond and Mural
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Kansas City: Missasoit, Great Sachem of the Wampanoags
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Kansas City: Money Museum: Truman's Coins
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Kansas City: Mural: Superman of Kansas City
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Kansas City: National Museum of Toys and Miniatures
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Kansas City: National World War I Museum
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Kansas City: Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
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Kansas City: Pirate Ship and Sea Monster
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Kansas City: Rows of Headless Men
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Kansas City: Sidewalk Solar System Model
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Kansas City: TWA Moonliner II - Rocket Ship
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Kansas City: The Workhouse Castle
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Kansas City: Walt Disney's First Film Studio
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Kansas City: Watch Movies in a Bank Vault
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Kansas City: World's Fair Last Supper
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Kansas City: World's Largest Cap Gun
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Kansas City: World's Largest Shuttlecocks
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Kearney: Jesse James' Feather Duster of Death
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Kidder: Front Yard "Castle" Containing Cremated Couple
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King City: The Big Pump
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Kingdom City: Ozarkland
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Kirksville: Cursed Baird Devil's Chair
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Kirksville: Human Nervous System
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Kirkwood: Three Stacked Chairs
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Koshkonong: Kosh City Jailhouse
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La Russell: The Pump
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Laclede: General "Blackjack" Pershing Statue and Birthplace
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Lake Ozark: Chief Bagnell and Country Bumpkin: Muffler Men
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Lake Wappapello: Muffler Man: Chief Wappalese
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Lamar: Big Steer
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Lamar: Harry Truman Birthplace
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Lamar: Mini Statue of Liberty
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Lamar: Studebaker-Truman Mural
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Leasburg: Canoehenge
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Lebanon: Route 66 Murals
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Lebanon: Route 66 Museum
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Lee's Summit: Jalapeno Pepper Pilot
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Lesterville: The Boulder Field
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Lexington: Cannonball in a Column
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Lexington: Madonna of the Trail
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Liberty: China Slaughter, Crossing Guard
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Liberty: Jesse James Bank Museum
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Liberty: Rhino Tombstone
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Licking: Baseball Water Tower
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Linn: The Pig Museum
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Long Lane: Smallest Bank in Missouri
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Louisiana: Fake Mural Painter in Town of Murals
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Macon: Shoe of the World's Tallest Man
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Mansfield: Pitcher Who Killed Batter With Ball
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Marceline: Walt Disney Dreaming Tree and Barn
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Marceline: Walt Disney Hometown Museum
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Marionville: Home of the White Squirrels
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Marshall: Grave of Jim the Wonder Dog
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Marshall: Jim the Wonder Dog Memorial Garden
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Marshall: John Marshall, SCOTUS Justice
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Marshall: Nicholas Beazley Aviation Museum
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Marshfield: George Bush Was In Our Parade
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Marshfield: Hubble Telescope Replica
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Marthasville: Daniel Boone's First Grave
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Martin City: Steakhouse Steer
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Maryville: International Plaza: Clocks of Many Nations
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Memphis: Mementoes of the Missouri Giantess
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Memphis: Nash-in-the-Wall
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Memphis: Restored 1920s Gas Station
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Milan: Grave of Pete Kibble's Foot
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Miller: Hangar Kafe - Eat at a Farm Airfield
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Miller: Spencer Station: Phillips 66
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Monett: Freedom Silo
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Mount Vernon: World's Smallest Wedding Chapel
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Mountain Grove: World's Largest U.S. Constitution
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Mountain View: Scrap Metal Horse Herd
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Neosho: Home-Made Mini Submarine in the Woods
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Neosho: World's Largest Flowerbox
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Nevada: Giant Morel Mushroom
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Nevada: Max: Cartoony Cowboy
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New London: Giant Mark Twain
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New Madrid: New Madrid Earthquake Museum
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Noel: Bluff Dwellers Cave: Move 20 Ton Rock with 2 Fingers
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Overland: Dan's Emerald Forest
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Ozark: Lambert's - Home of Throwed Rolls
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Pacific: Black Madonna Shrine and Grottoes
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Pacific: Original Monster Truck
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Pacific: Route 66 Mining Caves
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Pagedale: Honey, Where's My Metro Pass?
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Phillipsburg: I Love Lucy Car
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Plato: 2010 U.S. Population Center
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Plattsburg: Statue of America's Only One-Day President
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Point Lookout: Ralph Foster Museum: Beverly Hillbillies Car
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Poplar Bluff: Indian Chief Statue
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Portage des Sioux: Miracle Flood Repelling Virgin Mary
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Reeds Spring: Talking Rocks Caverns
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Rich Hill: Big Mouth, World's Largest Coal Shovel
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Richmond: Grave of Bob Ford, He Shot Jesse James
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Rolla: Stubby Stonehenge
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Rolla: Totem Pole Trading Post
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Rolla: Vacuum Cleaner Museum
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Salem: Bo's Hollow - Ride Antique Cars, Eat Beef Jerky
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Salisbury: Gator Chasing Grasshoppers
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Sedalia: Cradle of Ragtime Piano
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Sedalia: Trail's End Cattle Drive Destination Monument
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Sikeston: Lambert's, Home of the Throwed Rolls
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Smithville: Woodhenge
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Southwest City: Stand on Three States: Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma
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Springfield: Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World
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Springfield: Bicycle Fence
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Springfield: Carl: Muffler Man Chef
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Springfield: Crystal Cave
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Springfield: Ed Galloway's Lion in a Cage
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Springfield: Fantastic Caverns: Ride-Thru Cave
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Springfield: Getaway Golf
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Springfield: Red's Giant Hamburg Sign
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Springfield: Stand Where a Man Was Killed by Wild Bill Hickok
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Springfield: USS Lapon - Sub Surfacing out of Grass
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Springfield: Wonders of Wildlife
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Springfield: World's 2nd Largest Fork
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St. Charles: Lewis and Clark and Seaman the Dog
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St. Clair: Hot and Cold Water Towers
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St. Genevieve: Cave Vineyard - Underground Tasting
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St. Joseph: Famous Bull Tombstone And Time Capsule
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St. Joseph: Glore Psychiatric Museum
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St. Joseph: Ice Cream Cone Building
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St. Joseph: Japanese Tea House
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St. Joseph: Jesse James' Corpse Basket - Funeral Museum
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St. Joseph: Patee House Museum
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St. Joseph: Pony Express Motel Sign
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St. Joseph: Pony Express National Museum
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St. Joseph: Walter Cronkite Interactive Memorial
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St. Joseph: Where Jesse James Was Killed
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St. Louis: Abraham Lincoln Slept Here
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St. Louis: Announcer Jack Buck Monument
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St. Louis: Bevo Windmill
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St. Louis: Big Eyeball
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St. Louis: Big Wrench
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St. Louis: Budweiser Brewery Tour
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St. Louis: Bull vs. Bear Death Match
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St. Louis: Cartoonville Mural
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St. Louis: Cheshire Lodge - Theme Room Motel
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St. Louis: Chocolate Factory Tour
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St. Louis: Christman Studio and Sculpture Park
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St. Louis: Chuck Berry Statue
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St. Louis: City Museum
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St. Louis: Demo Man
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St. Louis: Empty Suit
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St. Louis: Flying Saucer Building
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St. Louis: Giant Concrete Turtle Park
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St. Louis: Giant Dinosaur
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St. Louis: Giant Vess Soda Bottle
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St. Louis: Grand "Old White" Water Tower
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St. Louis: Griot Museum of Black History
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St. Louis: HealthWorks! Kids Museum
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St. Louis: Hollow Head
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St. Louis: Italian Spaghetti Lady
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St. Louis: Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum
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St. Louis: Lemp Mansion - Haunted Tours
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St. Louis: Lewis, Clark, and Seaman the Dog
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St. Louis: Looking Up: 33-Foot-Tall Alien
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St. Louis: Mile-Long Graffiti Wall
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St. Louis: Military Aircraft Junkyard
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St. Louis: Miniature Museum of Greater St. Louis
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St. Louis: Monkey Man
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St. Louis: Muffler Car Parts Man
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St. Louis: Museum of Transportation: Bobby Darin's Car of the Future
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St. Louis: Nijinski Hare: Kung Fu Rabbit
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St. Louis: Planet Walk
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St. Louis: Self-Made Man
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St. Louis: Snake Man
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St. Louis: St. Louis Walk Of Fame
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St. Louis: Stag Beer Garage Door
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St. Louis: Talking Ben Franklin at Money Museum
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St. Louis: Ten-Foot-Tall Pinocchio
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St. Louis: The Billiken
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St. Louis: The Red Tower
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St. Louis: U.S. Grant's Log Cabin
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St. Louis: Wax Museum of St. Louis
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St. Louis: Whispering Arch
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St. Louis: World's Largest Amoco Sign
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St. Louis: World's Largest Chess Piece
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St. Louis: World's Largest Man-Made Moon
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St. Louis: Wreckage Of The USS Inaugural
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St. Robert: Jurassic Diner Dinosaurs
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Stanberry: Scrap Metal Sculptures
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Stanton: Jesse James Wax Museum
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Stanton: Meramec Caverns
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Stanton: Riverside Wildlife and Reptile Center
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Steelville: 1990 U.S. Population Center
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Steelville: Canoe Art in Missouri's Floating Capital
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Strafford: Wild Animal Safari
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Sumner: Maxie, the World's Largest Goose
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Tebbetts: Unofficial 2010 U.S. Population Center
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Tightwad: Town Bank with Ironic Name
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Tipton: 8-Ball Water Tower
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University City: Fish on a Bicycle
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Uranus: Cookin' from Scratch Chicken Car
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Uranus: Mega Mayor Muffler Man
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Uranus: Uranus
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Walnut Shade: Branson Cross: Largest in America
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Warrensburg: Blind Boone Statue and Park
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Warrensburg: Old Drum, Johnson County Old Courthouse
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Warrensburg: Statue of Old Drum, Unselfish Dog
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Warrensburg: Strange Steel Drum Family
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Washington: Corn Cob Pipe Museum
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Washington: Iron Spike Model Train Museum
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Waynesville: Frog Rock
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Webb City: Giant Hands in Prayer
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Webb City: Kneeling Miner
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Weldon Spring: Nuclear Waste Adventure Trail
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Wentzville: Horseshoe Pitchers Hall of Fame and Museum
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West Alton: Smallpox Island Memorial
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West Line: West Line South, A Tiny Town
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Weston: Largest Ball of String, Not Twine
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Windsor: Sleep in a Caboose
Gone But Not Forgotten
Closed and extinct places -- the classics and the quirky. A virtual revisit, even if it's just to milk them for one more chuckle...
- Bonne Terre: Giant Animal Cluster
- Branson West: Branson Interactive Zoo aka Predator World
- Branson: Branson's Gravity Hill
- Branson: Concrete Pink Gorilla
- Branson: Kirby VanBurch, Prince of Magic Show
- Branson: Motel Shaped Like a Riverboat
- Branson: Roy Rogers-Dale Evans Museum
- Branson: Segway Adventure Center
- Branson: The Amazing Frederick
- Branson: Tony Melendez - Guitarist with No Arms
- Branson: Waltzing Waters
- Branson: Yakov Smirnoff Theatre
- Brumley: Swinging Bridges Road
- Canton: Oldest Continually Operating Ferry on the Mississippi
- Charleston: Car Wrapped Around RR pole
- Charleston: World's Largest Ball of Human Hair
- Collins: World's Largest Display of American Revolutionary War Flags
- Columbia: Neon: Arrow Head Motel
- Crystal City: Eager Gas Jockey
- Cuba: Bob's Gasoline Alley
- Cuba: Neon Bucking Bronco Sign
- Farmington: Giant Animal Cluster
- Hannibal: Haunted House on Hill Street Wax Museum
- Hazelwood: First Due Fire Museum
- Hazelwood: Psychedelic Mall
- Highlandville: World's Smallest Cathedral
- Independence: Leila's Hair Museum
- Ironton: Ike the Crossroads Dog
- Jefferson City: Big Pacifier Made of Cigarette Butts
- Kansas City: Star Wars At-At Walker Mailbox
- Kansas City: World's Largest Concrete Soccer Ball
- Keytesville: Roadway Cautionary Woman
- Lake Ozark: Mystery Spot - Crazy Cousins Cabin
- Memphis: Pepsi Museum
- Plevna: Lone Horseman of Plevna
- Poplar Bluff: Call Of The Wild
- Reeds Spring: Museum of the Unexplained
- Republic: Lanning Sculpture Garden
- Richland: Cave Restaurant [formerly Caveman BBQ]
- Rolla: A&W Burger Family
- Rolla: Giant Camera
- Rolla: God's Well
- Rolla: Memoryville USA and Antique Car Museum
- Seneca: Giant Milnot Condensed Milk Can
- Springfield: Auto Parts Man, Former Site of Muffler Car
- Springfield: Bill Elliott's 1997 McD's NASCAR
- Springfield: Gigantic Paper Cup
- Springfield: World's Longest Trainspotting Footbridge
- St. Charles: Noah's Ark Restaurant
- St. Louis: Big Unloved Urban Indian
- St. Louis: Giant Farmer Fred and Clyde (In Storage)
- St. Louis: Museum of Quackery
- Valley Park: Cowboy Muffler Man
- Wardell: Otay Meter and Museum
- Washington: World's Largest Hot Dog Cart
- Willow Springs: Fire Museum of Missouri