22 Cool and Unusual Things to Do in St. Louis - Atlas Obscura

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City Museum

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

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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

This is not your typical jungle gym.

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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

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

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Pruitt-Igoe's Remains

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

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Miniature Museum of Greater St. Louis

A big museum full of little worlds.

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USS Inaugural (1993-2013)

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

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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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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.