The Magic House provides a beautiful and creative environment for curious youngsters to get their knowledge on.

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

This is not your typical jungle gym.

A chessmaster's dream destination.

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

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

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

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

The Old Courthouse takes visitors on a captivating trip through St. Louis' timeline.

An abandoned meat mecca now serves as an excellent locale for urban exploration.

Man-made geyser that rises to the exact height of the Gateway Arch.

This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.

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

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

This open air cathedral invites all faiths to worship under the only roof big enough to fit them all: the sky.

Part of a worldwide art project, this mysterious semicircle of concrete shapes holds the pieces of a larger story.

Symbolic attempt to overcome the issues of life.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

The famous Beatle secretly visited this Illinois town several times to visit his sister.

Taxidermy, Cigar Store Indians, A Model of a New York Tenement and Delicious Draft Root Beer.

This deceivingly ordinary warehouse hides an enormous collection of pop culture treasures.

Behind a modern brick exterior lies the oldest continuously-operating lunch-car diner in the United States.