Nominated by locals
Red Oak II
A hidden gem in Missouri
A painter hauled in a whole vanished town's worth of buildings and rebuilt his boyhood village from scratch on the prairie northeast of Carthage — free, just off Route 66, like a 1930s photograph come to life.
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