Places rubysage Wants to Go

For more than 75 years, this living piece of history has been serving exceptional soul food.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

This is the 2nd oldest chess club in the United States, hosting many tournaments and lessons.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

The 10th-tallest pyramid in the world, this former sports arena is now home to a massive Bass Pro Shops store.

The "Jade Museum" is full of thousands of intricately carved works of art made from various precious stones.

This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.

The largest public collection of roses in the United States.

This Texas home and garden was the masterpiece of a British portrait painter.

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

Exploring the past, present, and future of blues music.

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

This restaurant, art gallery, and nightlife hot spot is a love letter to Lagos from St. Louis.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

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

The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.

Foragers once flocked to this big beautiful bayou to hunt for pearls.

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.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A local shop filled with handcrafted art and funky home furnishings, vintage, and antiques.