Wallace State Park in Missouri covers 573 acres seven miles south of Cameron in Clinton County, offering a serene wooded escape less than an hour from Kansas City with rolling forested hillsides of white oak, red oak, hickory, and redbud trees.
The Veterans Memorial Museum most closely associated with Kansas City, Missouri, is the National World War I Museum and Memorial, originally established as the Liberty Memorial in 1926.
CityGarden Sculpture Park in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, is a vibrant urban park and sculpture garden spanning nearly three acres between Eighth and Tenth Streets.
The Butterfly Palace and RainForest Adventure in Branson, Missouri, is a popular family-friendly attraction featuring a large indoor aviary with over 1,000 exotic butterflies flying freely, offering visitors the chance to feed and interact with them.
The Dutton Family Theater in Branson, Missouri, is home to the multi-generational musical family, The Duttons, who have been performing there since 2000.
Boone's Lick State Historic Site in Missouri preserves 52 acres of wooded land four miles east of Arrow Rock, centered on ancient saltwater springs used by Native Americans and later commercialized for salt production starting in 1806 by Nathan and Daniel Morgan Boone, sons of frontiersman Daniel Boone, who boiled the briny water to create a vital resource shipped to St. Louis.
The National Museum of Toys and Miniatures in Kansas City, Missouri, opened in 1982 and is home to one of the largest historic toy collections in the United States along with the world's largest fine-scale miniature collection.
The Missouri State Capitol, located in Jefferson City, is an impressive classical building completed in 1917 and designed by the New York architectural firm Tracy and Swartwout.
The National Museum of Transportation in Kirkwood, Missouri, near St. Louis, was founded in 1944 with the goal of preserving American transportation history.
St. Louis, Missouri, founded in 1764 by French fur traders Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau, is a historically significant city located on the west bank of the Mississippi River.
Route 66 State Park in Missouri covers 424 acres along the Meramec River near Eureka, east of St. Louis, on the site of the former town of Times Beach evacuated after a 1982 dioxin contamination crisis that led to a massive Superfund cleanup.
Isle of Capri Casino Hotel Boonville is a riverboat-style gaming and lodging property on the Missouri River in historic downtown Boonville, Missouri, owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment.
Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate Company, founded in 1981 by Dan and Rosalie Abel in St. Louis, Missouri, is a family-owned artisanal chocolatier known for handcrafting small batches of premium chocolates using traditional recipes and high-quality ingredients.
Stark Caverns in Missouri is a stunning underground cave system located near Eldon, known for its beautiful limestone formations including stalactites, stalagmites, and unique features like the Twisted Column.
First Missouri State Capitol State Historic Site in St. Charles, Missouri, preserves two connected Federal-style brick buildings that served as the temporary state capitol from 1821 to 1826 while Jefferson City was developed as the permanent seat.
Big Lake State Park in Missouri spans 407 acres in the northwest corner near Craig in Holt County, hugging the shores of Big Lake—Missouri's largest remaining oxbow lake formed by an ancient loop of the Missouri River before channelization altered its course.
