Overview

Everyone recognizes the teardrop-eye, illustrated kids of Precious Moments®. However, you may not realize that their author Sam Butcher designed a chapel devoted to these Biblical figures in Carthage, Missouri. Opened in 1989, its interior walls are lined with artwork; it’s sort of a modern-day, American Sistine Chapel. The chapel is a site to be seen, as is the Fountain of Angels. Operational until 2007, the bronze show fountain used to run twice a day, dancing, singing and shooting water 80 feet into the air.