Saint Louis

Honorable mentions:

      • The Fabulous Fox Theatre
      • National Museum of Transportation
      • Missouri Botanical Garden
      • Tower Grove Park
      • Gateway Arch Riverboats

10. National Blues Museum and Sugarfire Smoke House Barbecue

9. Ulysses S Grant National Historic Site, plus Grant’s Farm and the thematically linked Missouri Civil War Museum

Lafayette Square, Saint Louis

8. Lafayette Square Neighborhood at Lafayette Park with Lafayette Square Community Garden Co-Op and Park Avenue Coffee for gooey butter cakes

Cahokia Courthouse, Cahokia, Illinois

7. Pays des Illinois sites (French Colonial Illinois Country)

      • Fort de Chartres State Historic Site
      • Prairie du Rocher – Creole House
      • Cahokia Courthouse, Holy Family Log Church, and Jarrot Mansion
      • Pierre Menard Home State Historic Site
      • Liberty Bell of the West at Kaskaskia Bell State Memorial
Chain of Rocks Bridge
Chain of Rocks Bridge

6. Saint Louis old Route 66 – Missouri old Route 66 – Old Route 66

      • Chain of Rocks Bridge
      • Magic House – St. Louis Children’s Museum
      • St. Louis Car Museum
      • Ted Drewes Frozen Custard
      • Donut Drive-In
Salt + Smoke, Delmar Loop

5. The Delmar Loop

      • St. Louis Walk of Fame
      • Blueberry Hill (famous Chuck Berry venue)
      • Chuck Berry Statue
      • Fitz’s (known for root beer and floats)
      • Salt + Smoke Barbecue
Jewel Box, Forest Park, Saint Louis

4. Forest Park (centennial of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904 – the St. Louis World’s Fair site)

      • Apotheosis of Saint Louis and City Art Museum
      • Jewel Box Conservatory
      • World’s Fair Pavilion
      • Nathan Frank Bandstand in Pagoda Lake
      • Colonial Daughter Fountain
      • Jefferson Memorial – Missouri History Museum

3. Market Street and the City Museum

      • The Wheel at Saint Louis Union Station
      • Luther Ely Smith Park and Kiener Plaza Park
      • Imo’s Pizza (Saint Louis style thin crust pizza)
      • City Garden Sculpture Park and Serra Sculpture Park
      • Thomas F. Eagleton United States Courthouse and Fillipine Garden
      • Saint Louis City Hall and Washington Square Park
      • Poelker Park and Kaufman Park
      • Soldiers Memorial Military Museum and Eternal Flame Park
      • Central Public Library and the City Museum
      • Stifel Theatre and St. Louis City Municipal Courthouse
Monks Mound at Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site

2. Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site (a World Heritage Site – across the river, in Illinois)

      • Monks Mound
      • Twin Mounds
      • Grand Plaza
      • Mound 72
      • Woodhenge
      • Interpretive Center
Gateway Arch National Park, Saint Louis

1. Gateway Arch National Park (former Jefferson National Expansion Memorial)

      • Gateway Arch
      • Old Courthouse
      • Museum of Westward Expansion