Places Ckorear512 Wants to Go

One of America's first planned communities is preserved in a state park.

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

One of few surviving standpipe water towers in the U.S.

This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.

University City's quirkiest resident lives in a park named after its first.

The only pig museum in the U.S. holds one of the world's largest collections of pig items.

The first rural cemetery west of the Mississippi is home to the elaborate tombs of St. Louis' local beer barons.

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

A wax effigy of St. Valentine hides one of the saint's relics.

Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.

Famous church recognized for both its unique design and disciplined monks that live according to the Benedictine discipline.

The ruins of a 19th century shelter run by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

Over 600 vacuum cleaners stack the shelves of what may be the cleanest museum in America.

The man who was president for only one day and spent most of it asleep.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

This pristinely abandoned filling station on the edge of a graveyard is populated solely by unsettling mannequins.

A small museum dedicated to the whimsical tool that turns sugar cookies into works of art.

Entombed in this strange, white stone hill are the deadly remains of radioactive weapons production.

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

This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.

An abandoned factory along the Mississippi coated by a giant mural.

A chessmaster's dream destination.

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