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St. Louis Zoo
The Saint Louis Zoological Park in St. Louis, Missouri has grown into one of the finest zoos in the nation; it has been recognized as a leading zoo in education, animal management, conservation and research. It is also free under a subsidy from the cultural tax district, with fees applied for special attractions and one of the more favorite rides is the Zooline Railroad that goes around the park stopping at a few of the more favorite. The city bought its first exhibit from the Smithsonian Institute after the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, which was a flight cage, and as the years passed by, the exhibits grew, filling up with native and exotic animals from around the world and across the state. The zoo's zones as they are called include; Lakeside Crossing, containing the south entrance, guest services, shopping, welcome desk, food services and Hermann Fountain; the River's Edge exhibits include the African Savanna with black rhinos, red river hogs, a colony of carmine bee-eaters and bat-eared foxes, the South America display with a giant anteater, bush dogs and capybaras, the African Nile with hippos, small dwarf mongoose, cheetahs and spotted hyenas, North American which houses the wildlife and fish of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers and the Asia exhibit with Asian elephants. There is also the Discovery Corner exhibits that include the children's zoo housing outstanding enjoyable and educational adventures like the see-through slide that runs through the otter pool, with numerous frogs, birds, snakes and various other types of animals, the gift shop, exhibit halls, movie theater, cafe and guest services located in the education department and the Monsanto insectarium and butterfly garden. Another is the wild exhibits that house the bear pits, the penguin and puffin coast, the conservation carousel and the fragile forest with orangutans, gorillas and chimpanzees. There is an inside exhibit that is the first walk-through display of sub-Arctic penguins in the continent with a half wall topped by windows that allow you to see the king, gentoo and rockhopper penguins with pools flanking it and two tunnels that flow under the walkway, which lets the penguins swim from one side to the other while you watch. There is also a motion simulator inside this exhibit that is becoming very popular. On the Historic Hill exhibits, you visit the bird house with featured guests like the kookaburra, tawny frogmouth, toco toucan, burrowing owl, Mariana fruit dove and the golden pheasant. In the same zone the bird garden is located, as well as the herpetarium for the amphibians and reptiles, that house, alligator snapping turtle, king cobra, green anaconda, Komodo dragon, pit vipers, Aldabra giant tortoise, mountain chicken, tuatara and gila monsters. The Chain of Lakes and the sea lion arena, as well as the original flight cage and cypress swamp. When the cage was constructed, it had been the biggest in the world, and still is quite impressive at 228 feet long and 84 feet wide, as well as being 50 feet high and is one of the world's biggest free-flight aviaries. At the Red Rock exhibits, you will view the big cats, the antelope house with ostriches, kangaroos and giraffes, the banteng, antelope, Somali wild ass and takin, camels, addax, okapi and zebras. All in all, this is surely one of the most exciting and interesting zoos in the nation and always read for you to come and visit.

Missouri Botanical Garden
The Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, Missouri is also known as Shaw's Garden after its founder, Henry Shaw, a philanthropist and botanist, and was started in 1859, making it one of the oldest botanical gardens in the nation and has been made a National Historic Landmark because of that. The beautiful park has become a major center for science education and botanical research of international repute, while also becoming an oasis in the middle of the city with 79 marvelous acres of horticultural beauty. There is a 14 acre Japanese strolling garden called Seiwa-en, a pioneer village, fountain area, playground, the Climatron geodesic dome conservatory, a water locking system and a children's garden, as well as an Osage camp and Henry Shaw's original 1850 house, next to the Tower Grove Park, another one of Shaw's legacies. The garden would be added as the fourth sub district of the Metropolitan Zoological Park and Museum District in 1983. The magnificent garden was the host of a featured exhibit called, "Glass in the Garden", that put glass sculptures all through the garden that were created by the gifted Dale Chihuly, and four of those splendid pieces were then bought to remain in the garden for all visitors to come and enjoy. Then, again, in 208, the sculptures of the French artist, Niki de Saint Phalle were placed throughout the garden, bringing it more alive with the visual beauty. During 2009, the garden would celebrate its 150th anniversary that contained a floral clock exhibit. The magnificent garden has become a venue for many yearly cultural festivals that include the Chinese Culture Days and the Japanese Festival, when there are many outstanding opportunities to showcase their marvelous botanics, as well as the cultural arts, food, music and crafts. The main features of the garden include; the Ottoman garden with its many gorgeous water features and xeriscape, the Tower Grove House built in 1849 and the herb garden, which was Shaw's Victorian country house modeled after the Italianate style, with a large tower over the central entrance, the Biblical garden with date palms, caper, mint, citron, fig and olive trees, pomegranate and other plants that were spoken of in the Bible. The Victory of Science over Ignorance, a marble statue created by Carlo Nicoli that is a replica of the original by Vincenzo Consani in the Pitti Palace, France created in 1859, the Strassenfest German garden, the Linnean House, Blanke boxwood garden, Gladney Rose garden, Grigg Nanjing Friendship Chinese garden, the English woodland garden and the Climatron. The garden also runs the butterfly house in Chesterfield, which houses an 8000 square foot indoor butterfly conservatory and outdoor butterfly garden. The Earthways center, the Shaw Nature Preserve round out the outstanding venues located in this spectacular garden.

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City Museum
The City Museum in St. Louis, Missouri is one of the most unique museums in the nation, if not the world, using repurposed industrial and architectural materials that are kept in the former International Shoe building in the Washington Avenue Loft District of the city that has become very popular with the community and visitors alike. The museum considers itself an eclectic blend of children's playground, surrealistic pavilion, funhouse and architectural phenomenon. When you come here, you are thoroughly encouraged to touch, play, climb, and especially feel everything that exists in the numerous displays. Named one of the best public play spaces in the nation by the Project for Public Spaces, the museum has won many awards, both international and local for its excellent and interesting exhibits, naming it a must-see place to visit. It was started by artist Bob Cassilly, and his then wife, Gail, with Bob still there as the artistic director. The entire museum occupies the former shoe factory and warehouse which the Cassillys purchased in 1993 and started working on it in 1995, and opening it to the public in 1997. It has continued to expand and add new displays, like the enchanted caves, MonstroCity in 2002 and the shoe shaft in 2003. In 2004, the World Aquarium would be added, and the circus ring that sits on the third floor shows live acts all day long. The Shoelace factory is another part that has been refurbished and now the antique braiding machines are making colorful shoelaces to sell, and you can even ask for your own special laces. The museum has been visited by numerous celebrities and often hosts concerts. The main building contains the first floor with numerous and exciting venues that keep the kids and their adult partners more than busy for hours on end. The mezzanine houses the food court and a few parts that belong to the exhibits from the first floor. The second floor houses MonstroCity and has a large vault that had been located at a bank from the mid 19th century and is now the portal or entrance to the city. The shoelace factory is also located on the second floor, with vintage machines from the 1890s, with the World Aquarium also located here, that is actually just an extension of the St. Louis Children's Aquarium, and the enchanted caves and shoe shaft can be found here. The third floor has quite a few attractions like the skateless park, the everyday circus, art city, toddler town, Beatnik Bob's, Past Architectural Hall and the natural history area. The fourth floor contains the gift shop with many museum items and the biggest vintage clothing store in the city. Outside the factory, but still on its grounds sits the MonstroCity that features two Sabre 40 foot aircraft fuselages that have been suspended high in the air, four-foot-wide Slinkies that allow visitors to crawl through, a fire engine, ball pit for adults filled with huge rubber dodge balls, a 25 foot cupola and castle turret. An early 19th century log cabin is just below the city, which had been the original home of Daniel Boone's son, and owned by the Hezel family for more than a century. One of the most exciting contraptions to play in or actually go through is a large school bus that hangs over the side, but you will have to pay an extra $5 to go up to the roof. It is one of the most fanciful attractions in the city, and regardless of your age, it is so much fun that you will want to come back and play in all the areas.

Grant's Farm
Grant's Farm, somewhat south of St. Louis, Missouri is the ancestral home of the Busch family, sitting on 281 acres and home to over 900 animals that represent over 100 various species. The farm has been run by the Busch family for over half a century, welcoming over 24 million visitors, and was the former area that Ulysses S. Grant had started to farm during the 1850s. There is plenty of opportunities to get food and drink here, and a chance to ride the farm's historic carousel, the elephant VIP tour, a private expedition, and lots of shopping places. There are also restrooms and baby changing areas, guest relations and the first aid office. However, because of the animals and visitors, smoking is not allowed anywhere on the property. There are bluegrass concerts scheduled for the late summer months and halloween, outstanding shows, animal encounters, camps and educational events that offer you and your children a chance to come face to face with many of the animals living here. In 1848, Grant and his new wife, Julia Dent, would get 80 acres of the Dent family land southwest of the city as a wedding gift, and in 1855, Grant would start cutting and notching the logs. He constructed a two story, four room cabin that was finished in only four days with the help of friends and he called it Hardscrabble. Grant did the majority of the work on his cabin, laying the floors, shingling the roof and building the staircase. The Grants would live here just a short time, when the couple moved back to the Dent's house after Mrs. Dent passed on. Grant would oversee both farms, growing wheat, potatoes and other vegetables, along with fruit from the orchards and cutting wood for the fireplaces. The house and property would leave the Grant family in 1885, with numerous people purchasing it, until the estate was bought by August Busch, Sr. in 1907. The first structure built on the land was the Bauerhof in 1913, and was the name used for farmstead. It is typical of a Bavarian farm with offices and quarters for those living and working there, a carriage house and stables, with the house encompassing a marvelous courtyard. This is where you can enjoy a complimentary sample of the numerous Busch products as well as a lunch from the Brat Haus that serves excellent bratwurst, pizza, chicken wings and pretzels. The estate's Clydesdale stables house about 25 foals, geldings, mares and stallions with a total of 200 nationwide, and is the owner to one of the world's biggest herds. The Tier Garten amphitheater is where all the shows are done, both educational and entertaining, with the elephant education show and the animal encounters that showcase the talents of reptiles, parrots, elephants and mammals. Finally, there is Deer Park that has become home to exotic animals from around the world and include; black buck antelope, bison, red deer and zebra.

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US Grant National Historical Site
The Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site occupies 9.65 acres 10 miles southwest of St. Louis, Missouri in the municipality of Grantwood Village and is known as White Haven; with it all commemorating the military career, life and Presidency of U. S. Grant. There are five historical buildings preserved here that include the childhood house of Julia Dent Grant, where the couple lived from 1854 until 1859. White Haven was a plantation that had been worked by slaves, when Grant had married his wife in 1848 and it would continue to do so until the end of the Civil War. Over the years, there have been many sites constructed in the United States that have commemorated or interpreted the 18th President of the United States, although none has looked at the man, his wife and the living conditions that they lived and worked under during those turbulent days. The displays and programs at White Haven have been especially designed to offer visitors the perfect venue to learn more about Ulysses, Julia and the people that lived on the plantation as individuals and to show that White Haven was just a microcosm of the many issues that faced the country in the mid 19th century, as well as offering visitors the best place to learn about country life during that period. Julia Boggs Dent was the oldest daughter of the seven children that had been born to Colonel Dent, and she would spend most of her childhood on the plantation. Julia was at a boarding school in St. Louis when Ulysses first visited the plantation in the summer of 1843, after having been assigned to the Fourth U. S. Infantry at Jefferson Barracks, which was prominent military post south of the city. Grant enjoyed visiting the Dent plantation, debating politics with the colonel and riding with his younger daughters, Emma and Nellie. When Julia finished school in February of 1843, she returned to the plantation, and Ulysses's visits would become more centered on her. The next spring, Grant's unit would be leaving to be reassigned to Louisiana, so he rode off to White Haven to ask for her hand in marriage. That marriage would have to wait, since it wasn't until 1848, that Grant came back from the Mexican-American War. That November, she left her home and became an army wife, living on the bases, that Grant had been assigned to in New York and Michigan. Julia went back to White Haven in 1850 to give birth to their first child, Frederick Dent Grant. Grant would have to leave his young family in 1852 since he was assigned to California, and Julia went back to White Haven to give birth to Ulysses S. Grant, Jr. Ulysses missed his family very much and in 1854, he would resign his commission so that he could go back to White Haven. It is a wonderful story of love and devotion, with the family continuing to grow and learn about this great new country that spread from one coast to the other. Their story is also one that should be read and continued since it is so interesting and historical. When you visit the historical site, it would behoove you to finish reading it.

Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis
The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis has been called the New Cathedral or the Saint Louis Cathedral, finished in 1914 in St. Louis, Missouri, when it would become the archdiocesan replacement for the old Cathedral of St. Louis, King of France. It would be started on in 1907, with the dedication and first mass held in 1914, after the superstructure was completed. Consecration took place in 1926 and it would become a basilica in 1997 after Pope John Paul II designated it as one. The cathedral is famous for its beautiful mosaic installation, that is considered the biggest in the world, an outdoor sculpture that encourages racial harmony and burial crypts. The grounds house the unique Chancery Building, constructed in 1965 and designed by the well known modernist architect Peruvian-American, Wenceslaus Sarmiento. The installation of the mosaics started in 1912 and was finished in 1988, with 41.5 million tesserae glass pieces in over 7000 colors and covering 83,000 square feet. The mosaics in the side chapel and sanctuary walls were designed and installed by Tiffany Studios, the mosaics in the main areas were designed by Albert Oerken and the installation done by numerous artisans that included; Emil Frei of St. Louis, Ravenna Mosaic, Inc and Hildreth Meire. The narthex depicts the life of King Louis IX of France, who was also the namesake of the city and church, with the back dome containing mosaics of important archdiocesan events. The main dome was designed and installed by Jan Henryk de Rosen and shows Biblical scenes from both testaments. The basement houses a museum devoted to the mosaics in the church along with other relics that were discovered in the cathedral. The mortuary chapel is also here, with numerous crypts that inters former leaders of the archdiocese and include; Archbishop John L. May, Luke E. Hart, Cardinals John J. Glennon, John Carberry and Joseph Ritter. A 14 foot tall welded stainless steel sculpture by Wiktor Szostalo was added to the side lawn of the cathedral in 1999, which was given by Adelaide Schlafly in memory of her late husband, Daniel Schlafly, a Catholic layman that was dedicated to the causes of peace and racial justice. It contains a winged angel with African American features, standing behind three children with European, Asian and Hispanic features playing a song of peace on their instruments, with a base made of granite and inscribed with quotations found in the New Testament, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Pope John Paul II. The enormous organ inside had been originally constructed by George Kilgen and Son, Inc. in 1915, with two four manual organ consoles, with one in the gallery with the organ and the other behind the sanctuary. A new organ was installed by Kilgen in 1946, with 77 ranks of pipes, with 14 coming from the old organ. An Echo Organ from Carnegie Hall in New York, was installed in 1948, and in 1984, it would be refurbished by the M. P. Miller Company.

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St. Louis Art Museum
One of the most unique homes in the state is the castle in Proctor, Berkeley that was built in 1867 The Saint Louis Art Museum has grown into one of the premier art museum in the nation, with up to half a million visitors coming here every year, with free admission made possible by the cultural tax district for St. Louis city and county. The museum is located in Forest Park, and the three story structure had been the Palace of Fine Arts for the 1904 World's Fair that was also called the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The main architect, Cass Gilbert had been inspired by the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, Italy and the British architect, Sir David Chipperfield designed the large addition that will add another 224,000 square feet to the museum's space, as well as enlarge the parking area below the museum. Besides featured exhibitions, the museum hosts rotating exhibits and installation, and includes the Currents series that highlights the works of contemporary artists, along with regular exhibits of works on paper, new media art and textiles. The collections of the museum hold over 30,000 works of art from antiquity to the current day and divided into 11 distinct areas; prints, drawings and photographs, African, American, pre-Columbian and American Indian, ancient and Islamic, oceanic, Asian, modern, contemporary, early European and decorative arts and design. The modern art collection contains works by van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, Monet and Gauguin, with the German 20th century paintings containing the world's biggest collection of Max Beckmann. The museum also has the Chuck Close, Keith from 1970, with hand-woven Turkish rugs that are considered some of the best in the world, the biggest US museum collection of George Caleb Bingham and the Egyptian mummy, Amen-Nestawy-Nakht; along with two mummies on loan from the Washington University museum. The museum offers art classes for adults and children, free guided tours by docents, the Richardson Memorial Library, that is one of the biggest centers for the documentation and history of art in the Midwest with over 100,000 volumes and the archives; as well as the Resource Center that offers loan collection of educational materials.  Exhibitions now showing include; Portrait of Depression-Era America, Joe Jones: Painter of the American Scene, Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea, New Media Series-Pae White: Dying Oak, Conservation Project: Panorama of the Monumental Grandeur of the Mississippi Valley, Current 105: Ian Moore and Monet's Water Lilies.

Museum of Transportation
The Museum of Transportation of the county of St. Louis, Missouri was initially started in 1944 by a group of people that were dedicated to preserving the history of transportation and houses a large number of vehicles from our illustrious history. The majority of this historic equipment comes in the forms of antique autos, a plane, boats and the museum's large collection of locomotives and railroad equipment that came here from various parts of the country. The museum has its own spur that runs into an active Union Pacific Railroad main line that had been part of the Missouri Pacific Railroad line. Because of this, the museum has been able to get some of the biggest and more unique pieces of railroad equipment into its outstanding collection. These include; Aerotrain #3, Frisco #1621 that has a sister called #1630 in Union, Illinois, the last surviving Milwaukee Road class EP-2 Bi-Polar Electric, SLSF 1522 that had been used for excursions from 1988 to 2002, Union Pacific Big Boy #4006, a Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad #9908 Silver Charger locomotive named the General Pershing Zephyr, Norfolk & Western Y6b class 2-8-8-2 #2156 and so many more that it would take another half hour to list them all. Located on the corner is the first railroad tunnel constructed west of the Mississippi, constructed in 1853, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. There is also a miniature railroad and full size trolley that is run on a seasonal schedule, and antique autos like; a 1908 Galloway Express Truck, Bobby Darin's Dream Car, a 1959 Ford gas turbine truck, 1915 Ford Model T, 1901 St. Louis Motor carriage company car, 1964.5 Ford Mustang and 1963 Chrysler Turbine car. There is also a Missouri River towboat, two airplanes, a C-47 Skytrain at the main gate and a T-33 Shooting Star by the scale model railroad.

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Campbell House Museum
The Campbell House Museum opened in 1943 and has become one of the finest historic property museums in the area, documented as a part of the Historic American Buildings Survey between 1936 and 1941, a National Trust for Historic Preservation Save America's Treasures project in 2000 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. The house museum commemorates the house and Victorian lifestyle of Virginia Kyle and Robert Campbell, that had been constructed in 1851 by John Hall, who sold it to Cornelia Hempsted Wilson in 1853, living there only a year, before selling it to Robert Campbell in 1854. The Campbells would live there until their last child had died in 1938. Campbell bought the house for about $18,000 and sometime after moving in, increased the size of the house in the back by adding a kitchen more servant bedrooms and a dining room. Then again in 1867, the family would continue with its renovations by putting the two parlors together into one big one, putting three more rooms on the third floor and putting a three story bay window on the east side. The outside porch would be enclosed in 1885, and the Morning Room created and in 1900 the street name was changed to Locust Street and their address would become 1508 Locust Place. The last living Campbell was Hazlett, who passed on in 1938 at the house, which set into motion a long and complex litigation process that would end in confusion, although the interior furnishings had been evaluated and considered to be one of the finest antique collections in the nation, particularly during the mid Victorian period. The William Clark Society, a local history group, started organizing to save the house and its magnificent contents, but the Campbell cousins that inherited the contents decided to auction off all the furnishings and contents. The society raised over $6500 that would allow them to purchase most of the contents, with others buyers donating many items to the society and future museum. The house museum opened in 1943, and during the 1940s, it was the only museum dedicated to the history and decorative arts from the mid Victorian age in America, which helped the museum be featured in the May 1945 Life Magazine issue and the National Geographic in 1946.

St. Louis Science Center
The Saint Louis Science Center in St. Louis, Missouri has been ranked as one of the top five science museums in the United States, and it is one of the biggest of its kind in the nation and like all science centers, it has been created for a facility of informal science education for people of all ages. The center is composed of four buildings that include the; James S. McDonnell planetarium that is located in Forest Park, the Taylor Community Science Resource Center and a new building across the interstate, called Exploradome that is an air supported structure next to the main building. The center had originally been started by the Academy of Science of St. Louis and it was called the Museum of Science and Natural History in 1959 in the Oak Knoll Park of Clayton. In 1972, the center would begin getting funds from the city through a sales tax, and in 1983, the museum expanded its scope to the planetarium that had been owned by the city; getting a major renovation that would allow it to open as the Saint Louis Science Center. The planetarium was named after James Smith McDonnell, an aviation pioneer and co-founder of the city based McDonnell Douglas aerospace manufacturer, designed by Gyo Obato of Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum and it would open in 1963. The main structure was a new building across from the planetarium designed by E. Verner Johnson and Associates, and includes the IMAX Dome, theater and pedestrian bridge that goes over 64/40. The Exploradome opened in 1997 for traveling exhibitions and to host big group events, with the Taylor Community Science Resource Center opening in 2003. It was donated by Jack Taylor, the founder of Enterprise Rent-A-Car and contains programs like the YES program that mentors urban teens. The main structure sits on four levels, with the Ecology and Environment gallery on the lower level, the first floor houses the Human Adventure gallery, the MedTech gallery by the main entrance, the Energizer human hamster wheel that powers the Energizer Ball Machine, a food court and the ExploreStore gift shop. The second floor houses the Structures gallery, the Flight! gallery, the Omnimax theater and a computer gallery called the Cyberville. The new Science Lab gallery opened in 2008, and the entire center won a national competition to host SciFest, the international Science festival.

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