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22 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in St. Louis, Missouri

Unusual
Attractions
in St. Louis

St. Louis, Missouri

City Museum

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

38.6330, -90.2001

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The Front of the Lemp Mansion, built in 1868. There have been three suicides in the walls of this house.

St. Louis, Missouri

Lemp Mansion

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

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Turtle Playground.

St. Louis, Missouri

Turtle Playground

This is not your typical jungle gym.

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Grant's Farm is the official home of the Budweiser Clydesdales.

St. Louis, Missouri

Grant's Farm

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

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Eros Bendato.

St. Louis, Missouri

Eros Bendato

A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.

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Site of Pruitt-Igoe today

St. Louis, Missouri

Pruitt-Igoe's Remains

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

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An inglorious end to a once-proud ship.

St. Louis, Missouri

USS Inaugural (1993-2013)

A floating museum that was sunk by a flood and left to rot in the tides.

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Added by musicman

John Thomas Peele, Waiting For Their Master, 1859. Oil on canvas. Gift of the Mr. and Mrs. Alvin E. Maurer, Jr. estate

St. Louis, Missouri

The American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog

An extensive collection of fine art devoted to man's best friend.

38.6084, -90.4864

Added by Trippnmama

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Unique
Food & Drink
in St. Louis

Gooey Butter Cake

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Gooey Butter Cake

Everything St. Louisans love about this local specialty is in the name.

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St. Louis-Style Pizza

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St. Louis-Style Pizza

With extra-gooey cheese and a cracker-thin crust, some say it's more like nachos.

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St. Paul Sandwich

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St. Paul Sandwich

Don't think too hard about the name.

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Fried Brain Sandwich

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Fried Brain Sandwich

Only a handful of restaurants still serve the retro Midwestern meal.

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Stories
About St. Louis

The <em>Ribbon Map of the Father of Waters</em>—pictured rolled up (left) and fully extended (right)—was meant to be wrapped around a spool and brought on steamboat trips.

This 11-Foot 'Ribbon Map' Puts the Whole Mississippi River in Your Pocket

Steamboat tourists of the late 1860s wrapped it around a spool.

A 257-Year-Old Coloring Book Was Discovered in St. Louis

It was intended for "Gentleman and Ladies."

by Erik Shilling

St. Louis Road Workers Were Defeated by This Small Blue Kia

Islands in the stream / that is what we are.

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