Decaying, Forgotten MISSOURI Towns That Will Surprise You 

303 S Central Ave, Marionville, MO 65705 $314,900 3 bed 1.5 bath 2,439 square feet 0.62acre lot

This type of video makes me almost cry. Maybe 30 yrs ago, this town had shops, businesses and a place to gather on Saturday to do your shopping. 😔

In most of these towns , time has stood still.

I'm liking this 'boring' tour. Just the numbers, and a nice drive to actually see it all. Upclose and current. This is how you do a channel 👑

I like quiet small towns, I would enjoy these places

I found this channel about 5 months ago and have become hooked. 👍🏻! Keep up the great work. You’re on fire🔥.

I love when you go through Missouri. The towns always seem so peaceful and the sky is always clear and blue! There is a certain charm to the small towns that is unique to Missouri. As someone who lives in the heart of a major city I often wonder what spending days in a quiet town like this would be like.

Joe, you have been truly blessed with an awesome, soothing voice…perfect for on the road trips!

This really is the 'middle' of Nowhere! Thanks for the revealing look Joe and Nic!

I love the drive in theatre. Those were good times

Saved this a couple of days for my evening watch. Finally some towns where my retirement income would work.

Im from Brazil, i would love to live in a small american town, its so beautiful there. Stay strong America.

I live in the country, in Texas, close to a tiny town. I love it! Sitting in the shade having sweet iced tea & relaxing after cleaning the kitchen, right after breakfast 🥚 & 🥓! We have acreage & we gave land to each of our kids. We have 3 kids. 2 of them had their homes built on their land. One lives in Austin, not far away. It's a sweet life!❤

My family is one of the 12 pioneer families that migrated there in the 1850's

I love seeing what you and Nicole eat best of all. I usually would select what Nicole chooses both to drink and eat. I’m housebound in the UK and thanks to you I can now travel around the US. Thank you

When I see a town like this I think of Fredericksburg Texas. Somebody open a winery, plant a vineyard and grow some grapes, you can import what you really need. The locals probably wouldn’t like it, but if you build it they will come, middle aged women 🥰💜

Love to see the America the mainstream ignores. This is our nation's history on display. It's fascinating!!

Can't get much more depressing than "decaying" and "forgotten."😢

8:30 That's a nice little craftsman style home. Well kept and nice looking yard.

all of these smaller towns are what most of America used to be. very peaceful living. have to create your own entertainment. Folks are generally pretty nice.

It's a thousand miles from nowhere, it don't matter to me. A thousand miles from nowhere and there's nowhere I'd rather be. Signed, Dwight Yoakam.

Nothing makes a street more beautiful than tree lined with big mature trees. Very interesting town. Did you know there are no cats in Australia 🙀

Ex video. Showing your restaurant tab made me chuckle from a recent trip I took. Went to Maine (3 wks ago) visited up down the state, and Maine lobsters in a restaurant are cheaper at home (FL) versus Maine; and every meal was almost identical to your bill. It's simply pricey everywhere and many locals can no longer support their local businesses, sad state of affairs in USA, Canada, and Europe.

Tuba players were the Rockstars of the era.

When you say 2100 people live there, maybe they’re underground, no one visible

Joe, has a smooth speaking style. A pleasure to see and listen to their videos.

I just about bought 47 acres in the vicinity you were in today with an 1/8 acre of ninagua river on it.

I've been watching your videos for a couple of years and just realized really how lucky we are I am from St. Louis MO, I think we need to protect at all costs what we have.

Thanks U2. Cheers from Sth Australia.

Harvey Phillips is one of greatest of all time. Taught at Indiana for many years, after a great career as player in NYC. Indiana has one of the finest music school in the country.

So love your real America tours. What always surprises me, from my regular visits to the States and your tours, are the high levels of poverty, America really is a place of huge extremes. Thanks again and safe travels.

Im in the uk and love to see your tour films . Interesting to see america

Great video as usual Joe. Love the small towns. And yeah getting away from the traffic. Really surprised me the medium age there was pretty young most the time in small especially rural areas it’s usually older. Great to see people are not letting them die. Back in my trucking days have been to that feed mill. I like the fact you brought up about how the government uses the same standards for poverty level and it’s not always exact in places with lower cost of living I see it round here myself. Thanks for the pricey trip through the Bass Pro attractions. I’ve been to several but have always wanted to go to this one. Maybe someday. LoL on a side note I think that large fish is a grouper maybe a Goliath grouper. Thanks for the ride along guys appreciate it. Safe travels my friend. Keep filming I’ll keep watching

Really quiet Saturday reminds me of Children of The Corn horror movie 👧🏼👦🏼🔪. Nice and sunny 🌞. Tiny🐟🐡🐠🐙 yay!! 👍🏽. Awesome Aquarium waterpark guys . food looked very good Joey and Nicole 👏🏻👦🏼👩🏻

2:17. Hah! That exact same Toyota Sienna shows up on Google Maps...in pretty much the same place.

THANKS JOE AND NIC ❤

One of those old two-story storefronts would be a good place to start. Revamp it and live out your quiet life there. Redo the floors and windows, refinish the floors, put in mini splits, and get a Starlink on your roof. Oh, yeah, and sit up on the roof at night and sip while you look at the stars and sleep up there if you like. You're just a short drive to Springfield and all the city-things you may need, but you're in the midst of peace and quiet. The only thing better would be to have a lake right there to gaze at and maybe fish and take a dip in. Once the SH'sTF, people are going to be looking for a place like this to have a garden and get away from whoever and whatever. Why not start now, folks. It's coming.

Joe & Nic's Road Trip, it maybe people watching RU-vid videos on their cells phones this does 2 things we get to see the country without a cost of a vehicle or taking up time using gas going to all these places. Thanks for the road trips without all of the expensive.

Small towns look desolate. But once you move there and become a familiar face you make real friends for life. They don't hang out in the streets like the big city. Make a beeline to the local churches on Sunday. Then park and get involved.

Flavor explosion-the duck poppers!

It's been awhile since I could watch so I've been catching up this weekend. I've been subscribed since you started and have just enjoyed the heck out of your adventures. I noticed this week that each town has birds singing and chirping. It's one of the pleasant "side effects" of small towns, hearing the birds. Thank you both- we love and appreciate the ways you view 🇺🇸 America!

The home of white squirrel. If you travel east of Springfield on us 60 hwy. You will see it gets worse the farther east you go. I was raised in Fordland, 22 miles east of Springfield.

A great video, as always ! I love the old store-fronts in the downtown areas, and it's awesome to see the drive-in theatre still operating ! Thank you so much, Joe and Nic.😊💖

Key lime pie is my very favorite one. Yum, yum have a great day and safe travels

Ty Nicole and Joe 4 another fantastic vid. Food looked great! Priced great w/drinks! B safe out there.

The lion fish's saving grace: they're good eatin'!

I love the old ghost signs of history past but just still visible 😊

The worst thing you can do to a beautiful old house is to split it up into apartments and add outside stairs and the like…

Gave up watching tv over a year ago, nothing but brain dead crap! Have 60 odd live music concerts to keep me amused amongst other things. Chanced upon your site in January this year, what a discovery! My brother and I have been watching two at a time to catch up! Really enjoy your honesty, your humour and the presentation is clever and interesting. Thanks for some great journeys and keep on truckin!

A double double double real nice awesome vid. As per usual. Luv ya !

Marionville home of the white squirrel!

Enjoyed watching 👀

Another awesome video joe thanks again and God Bless to you both safe travels

I really enjoyed the museum, thank you 😊

Such a great video, you really did it all. Loved the towns and the aquarium looked excellent. 45 is pricey, but for all the upkeep and how well it is presented, I think I would pay that. The restaurant looked fun as well. All of the flags were out for flag day which is also my birthday, so as someone mentioned iin the comments, you must have been out on the 14th. Thank you again for bringing us with you. Missouri looks truly beautiful.

I really enjoy your videos. No drama, no clickbait. Just nice and easy facts and videos about rural US. I guess the low medium age in Marionville and Crane could be because its cheap to buy a house and they all might work in Springfield wich is only a 30-40 minute drive. Also can be the reason for downtown decaying in Marionville. Nobody "lives" there, only sleeps there. Strange contrast indeed on the nice suburbs versus downtown in collaps...Oh and you forgot to mention how many people lives in Aurora.

Thank you for posting this. I really like your content.

I found your channel recently and appreciate all that you do. It is an education to see and learn about regions, states, small towns, history and current situations. Thank you. Excellent. The restaurants are interesting as well. It is also inspiring that you both work out.

Love the tours of the small towns !

Fish swimming in a circle or as a mass is called schooling. It protects most of them from predators.. safety in numbers. The Hemingway restaurant reminds me of the one trip to an Island my fiancé and I visited in 1979, St. Lucia , it was Hemingway's inspiration for many of His writings. Small world , eh? I don't know if he ever was in Springfield, Cheers, Rik

Hey Joe & Nicole, sending hugs your way!

Another excellent video Joe, good work.

Welcome back to SW Missouri, Nick and Joe! Fun (or morbid, perhaps) Fact: Gypsy Rose Blanchard and her mother Dee Dee lived in both Aurora and Springfield Missouri. The murder of Dee Dee occurred in Springfield.

Thanks so much for the video. I love going all around the country with y’all. The sad thing about this town is it what a beautiful day it is and there’s no children outside playing or anyone walking or doing lawn work. It’s very sad to think everybody’s inside watching their devices in and television with the children on their games and nobody’s outside anymore.😔

A man from down under here, I had a peek at the house on Central Ave on Zillow, looks like a good deal to me, most of the house is really nice ... loved Crane, and what that town has done with the downtown looks outstanding. There are even buildings that look like they are no longer used, but they are cared for so the only direction this town will probably go is up, what we are seeing here in the present is going to become history in the future ... so more great work from Joe'n'Nic 👍

I always enjoy your videos! Thanks for the museum tour! Cool place!

Great video as always,very interesting seeing the places you visit.Spent a week in Springfield in 1982 when I came over from the UK with my sister to visit her pen friend.

G'day Joe n Nic, I've been to a big bass store in your country and it's like something out of Disney World, Impressive. The easy way to tell the difference between an Alligator and an Indo - Australian estuarine crocodile is to go for a swim and if you survive it's not a salty 👍.

Who drives ? While you run the stats, great team work you two ❤ the videos. Thanks for keeping your windows spotless,

Another enjoyable video❤❤❤❤

Good morning Joe,Nic nice that 1st town looks Badly kept up wow all the rest not to Bad wow that aquarium is really cool thank you for the video

Wonderfully informative video. Thanks for sharing.

Beautiful, quiet and clean town. Love your videos! ❤

Amazing bolt- on- house. Huge...

Seeing these small towns with their semi-abandoned main streets makes me want to grab my camera, hit the road to go see them in person and take tons of pictures. And that community pool...it has a diving board! Sadly, they are pretty much extinct in California. Ah, The Wonders of Wildlife Museum! When I first heard about it I scoffed at the idea of a "Disneyfied" aquarium. But wow, I was impressed and really enjoyed my visit (it was especially nice since it was 90 degrees and super humid outside 🙂) The whole complex with the Bass Superstore is a worthy stop for any fan of roadside attractions. See you in the land of Lincoln...happy trails!

A surprise… thank you for what you do ❤

My mother was born and partially raised in Ash Grove Missouri not far from Springfield. I don't even know if that town still exists. It might be a deserted looking place like some of these others that you go through.

Look at all these flags.....God Bless America

Where are you stopping in Delaware? In New Castle you have Old New Castle by the Delaware Bridge and the university of Delaware in Newark. In the state capital you have the Monster Mile at Dover Downs where NASCAR runs every year. Then of course you have the beaches down south, Rehoboth, Dewey, Bethany, etc. Heads up though, try and do Delaware on a weekday! Traffic on beach weekends can be horrendous! If you want to check out a neat place right over the line in Maryland, stop in Chesapeake City! The Bayard House, Schaffer’s and the Chesapeake Inn are all great places to eat there and all three are right on the C&D canal.

We love you guys.

Joe - "It looks like there may have been people here at some point, but I'm not really sure anymore!" LOL

You'd think the best aquarium in the country would be in California or Florida. Nope, it's in the midwest.

Appreciate the tour of these small rural towns. I really like these tours. I’d be so happy to travel the roads and enjoy the scenery. I do like the City Hall in Aurora. I like Crane’s downtown. The Aquarium is very nice. Lion fish are cool. Looking forward to your next video!

Enjoyed the aquarium a lot!

Saturday was flag day, nice to see the flags. Enjoyed all locations! Thank you!

Very cool video!

Another great tour Joe & Nic. I really liked Marionville and Aurora and the Missouri countryside is gorgeous. The aquarium was it in Springfield MO or Springfield IL? Wow $45 a ticket, it had better be a good one at that price! 😮🤑

Sweet adventure

Wow, Springfield, Missouri, is where I received my naturalization papers in 1956. My dad was stationed at Fort Leonard Wood , Missouri.

We watch almost daily, from South Africa. I would love to get in touch with a idea. Love the show.

That aquarium was neat, and looked to be worth $45 ticket price. As usual, I always get hungry when you show the meals that you and Nicole order. And seeing the deserts is really a challenge. Thank you.

I wouldn't expect one of the most outstanding aquariums in the country to be in Springfield, Missouri. Does not compute.🤔🙃

The best towns seem to be those without a free hand out. Love your channel.

Love this area! Have some family not far from where you showed us!

You missed your chance to tell us that Marionville is home of the white squirrel!🐿

Most of these towns are remnants of train depots. Once the trains left, the business all moved to the highway. These downtown are pretty bad, but the town is more on 60 highway. Would be nice if you would show that instead of just decay

I live in Lowry City, Mo. Not much downtown either. Great video by the way. 😊

Hello from Hindmarsh Island South Australia love watching your videos very interesting thank you ❤

Thank you Joe. Your video just saved me $45 🤣🤣🤣🍻😎

That house on 303 central is going for $314,900