Places rbowptown Wants to Go

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.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

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

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.

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

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

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

Nestled in Onondaga State Park, over 100 canoes carefully stacked in a replica of the famous standing stones.

400 million-year old limestone caverns nestled in the Ozarks served as shelter and a hideout for cultures throughout North American history.

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.

After miraculously surviving a giant flood, the 19th-century nut tree and its offspring are protected with their own tiny park.

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

Come for the heirloom-corn whiskey, stay for the wood hats.

A floating museum that was sunk by a flood and left to rot in the tides.

A big museum full of little worlds.

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

A hoard of sky catalogs, astrophysical journals, even the works of Galileo and Copernicus.

D.C.'s first central library was born out of a chance encounter with the philanthropist whose name it bears.

A super-sized promotional trick that is now a D.C. landmark.

Home to a vast and influential collection of Shakespeareana.

The house where John Wilkes Booth conspired with his co-conspirators.