Places ERuler39 Wants to Go

During the 19th-century, this park was a vital trading fort.

Giant works of art interspersed throughout meadows and woodlands offer a new discovery at every turn.

This museum presents a dogged pursuit of 500 years of veterinary history.

The obelisk meant to mark the founding father's grave at Monticello is actually on the University of Missouri campus.

A Mormon place of exile in Missouri.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

A museum dedicated to man's boldest venture.

A chessmaster's dream destination.

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

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

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

An unexpected but incredible collection of wildlife dioramas spanning rainforests, swamps, forests, and plains.

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

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.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

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