Places ClementWeather Wants to Go

More than 12,000 years ago, this park was a playground for mastodons.

Step inside one of America’s rare poteaux-en-terre French houses.

In the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks at 1,772 feet above sea level, Taum Sauk Mountain is the highest (and possibly oldest) peak in Missouri.

Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.

Rusted and decayed, this former mining site is a portal to the past.

The world's largest man-made underground caverns offer unparalleled underwater wonders.

Some of the oldest exposed rock formations in the United States.

See the world's biggest spool of thread, along with the largest collection of sewing machines.

Another in a long tradition of legends regarding infernal seats.

Who said a biker bar is no place for a taxidermy squirrel collection?

Away from the crowds of fishing enthusiasts, take a hike deep into the woods and journey into an eerie darkness.

A celebration of the animation wizard's childhood home and antique railroad memorabilia collection.

A flat slab of stone perched hundreds of feet above the Gasconade River in the northern Ozark mountains.

The only remaining Cold War–era Minuteman II missile control center in Missouri.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

A small town garden is dedicated to a psychic dog with the most soulful eyes.

A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.

This whimsical statue marks the high water level from the Great Flood of 1993.

A geological oddity formed by two rivers carving out a mass of limestone on both sides.

Over 120 years ago, the original boardgame that inspired Monopoly was invented in this small Illinois town.

Preserving the story of an early 20th-century orphanage.

Lined with plaques and tributes to veterans, this patriotic street was founded by Mexican immigrants.

An underground wonderland in Iowa.

Learn about puppetry and get a chance to make your own puppet.