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Unusual
Attractions
in St. Louis

St. Louis, Missouri

City Museum

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

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.

St. Louis, Missouri

Turtle Playground

This is not your typical jungle gym.

St. Louis, Missouri

Eros Bendato

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

St. Louis, Missouri

Grant's Farm

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

St. Louis, Missouri

Miniature Museum of Greater St. Louis

A big museum full of little worlds.

St. Louis, Missouri

Pruitt-Igoe's Remains

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

St. Louis, Missouri

Chuck Berry's House

The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.

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Unique
Food & Drink
in St. Louis

Gooey Butter Cake

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

St. Louis-Style Pizza

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

Gerber Sandwich

The St. Louis creation earned the "best use of the worst cheese" award.

The Slinger

Satisfy your midnight munchies with this Franken-feast out of St. Louis, Missouri.

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Monks Mound at Cahokia.

How Did Cahokian Farmers Feed North America’s Largest Indigenous City?

Native American farming was more sophisticated than your history textbook told you.

by Reina Gattuso

The skate park hidden inside St. Liborius' walls.

How a St. Louis Church Became a Skate Park

Welcome to heaven on earth for skaters.

by Evan Nicole Brown

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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."

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

Islands in the stream / that is what we are.