Saint Louis

Honorable mentions:

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

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

9. National Blues Museum and Sugarfire Smoke House Barbecue

Lafayette Square, Saint Louis

8. Lafayette Park and Square

      • Lafayette Park
      • Lafayette Square Neighborhood
      • Lafayette Square Community Garden Co-Op
      • Park Avenue Coffee
      • Gooey butter cakes
Cahokia Courthouse, Cahokia, Illinois

7. 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

      • Salt + Smoke Barbecue
      • Fitz’s (known for root beer and floats)
      • St. Louis Walk of Fame
      • Blueberry Hill (famous Chuck Berry venue)
      • Chuck Berry Statue
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 and Colonial Daughter Fountain
      • World’s Fair Pavilion
      • Nathan Frank Bandstand in Pagoda Lake
      • Jefferson Memorial – Missouri History Museum
Aloe Plaza in front of Saint Louis Union Station

3. Saint Louis Union Station and Market Street with the City Museum

      • 20th: The Wheel, Saint Louis Union Station, and Aloe Plaza
      • 18th: United States Postal Service, Saint Louis City Municipal Court, and Memorial Plaza
      • 15th: Stifel Theatre, Soldiers Memorial Military Museum, and Eternal Flame Park
      • 13th: Saint Louis City Hall, Washington Square Park, and Poelker Park
      • 11th: Serra Sculpture Park, Kiener Plaza Park, and Ballpark Pizza (Saint Louis style thin crust pizza)
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
Gateway Arch National Park, Saint Louis

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

      • Gateway Arch
      • Old Courthouse
      • Luther Ely Smith Square
      • Museum of Westward Expansion
      • Saint Louis Riverfront – Gateway Arch Riverboats (not part of the park)