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

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

The eccentric and colorful pavilions of Tower Grove park are a beloved and overlooked symbol. 

A big museum full of little worlds.

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

Symbolic attempt to overcome the issues of life.

Home to a collection of artifacts and specimens from one of the world's preeminent geologists

Part of a worldwide art project, this mysterious semicircle of concrete shapes holds the pieces of a larger story.

This open air cathedral invites all faiths to worship under the only roof big enough to fit them all: the sky.

You thought Santa Claus didn't exist, but it turns out you were wrong.

View Kentucky's beauty and history from the perspective of painter John James Audubon, author and illustrator.

The farm where one of America's greatest leaders was raised is now a well-appointed landmark.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

One of the last Depression-era bandshells still standing was the site of Elvis Presley’s first live concert.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

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

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

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

The ill-fated plan to reroute the Mississippi so that Union ships could bypass Confederate fortifications on the river bend.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

A free museum that memorializes the deadliest river flood in American history, and the civil engineering efforts to tame the Mississippi River.