Current River State Park is an 839‑acre Missouri park along the Current River north of Eminence in Shannon County, built on land that was once the Alton Box Board Company’s corporate retreat known as the Alton Club in the 1930s and 1940s.
Prairie State Park in Missouri preserves nearly 4,000 acres of rare tallgrass prairie and woodlands in Barton County near Mindenmines, one of the state's largest remaining examples of the landscape that once covered over a third of Missouri.
The Hollywood Wax Museum in Branson, Missouri, opened in 1996 and is a two-story attraction featuring lifelike wax replicas of celebrities from various eras and genres.
Locust Creek Covered Bridge State Historic Site in Laclede, Missouri, features the state's longest surviving covered bridge at 151 feet, built in 1868 using the innovative Howe truss design with white pine beams and iron rods.
Gen. John J. Pershing Boyhood Home State Historic Site in Laclede, Missouri, preserves the Gothic Revival house where World War I hero General John Black Jack Pershing lived from age six into adulthood after his family purchased it in 1866.
Bryant Creek State Park is a nearly 3,000-acre Missouri park in southern Douglas County, about 22 miles southeast of Ava in the Ozarks, stretching along 1.67 miles of Bryant Creek, a scenic tributary of the North Fork River.
The Museum of Illusions in St. Louis is an interactive, family-friendly museum located at City Foundry with over 50 exhibits designed to challenge perception and play tricks on the mind.
Saint Joseph, Missouri, founded in 1826 by fur trader Joseph Robidoux, developed as a key trading post along the Missouri River and was officially incorporated in 1843.
Powell Gardens, located near Kansas City, Missouri, is an expansive 970-acre botanical garden that showcases over 6,000 varieties of plants with 225,000 plants in seasonal displays.
The Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri is a large artificial lake created by the construction of Bagnell Dam in 1931 on the Osage River, making it one of the largest man-made lakes in the United States.
The George Washington Carver National Monument in Newton County, Missouri, was established in 1943 as the first national monument dedicated to an African American and the first created for a non-president.
The Magic House, St. Louis Children’s Museum, founded in 1979 in a Victorian mansion in Kirkwood, Missouri, is dedicated to engaging children through hands-on learning experiences that inspire creativity, curiosity, and problem-solving.
Crowder State Park is a 1,912‑acre Missouri park in the rolling hills of Grundy County, about four miles south of Trenton, centered on the 18‑acre Crowder Lake.
The Saint Louis Zoo in Missouri originated from the 1904 World's Fair, where the Smithsonian Institution built a large walk-through aviary that the city purchased to prevent its removal.
Big Oak Tree State Park in Missouri preserves 1,029 acres of rare, ancient bottomland hardwood forest in the Bootheel region near East Prairie, featuring towering oaks and hickories over 120 feet tall, bald cypress swamps, and marshy wetlands that recreate the pristine landscape early explorers encountered before drainage turned the area into farmland.
The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, is a 630-foot tall stainless steel monument that serves as a symbol of the city’s historical role as the Gateway to the West during America's westward expansion.
Mastodon State Historic Site in Imperial, Missouri, safeguards the Kimmswick Bone Bed, a key archaeological and paleontological area where mastodon bones and other Ice Age fossils were discovered in the early 1800s, drawing global scientific attention as one of the nation's richest Pleistocene deposits.
