Missouri
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Featured Attractions
Griot Museum of Black History
St. Louis, Missouri
Wax museum focuses on local black history and accomplishments. Stark, compelling wax exhibit on slave ships and auctions.
Jesse James Wax Museum
Stanton, Missouri
Jesse James didn't die, or at least not right away. Museum proves it.
Black Madonna Shrine and Grottoes
Pacific, Missouri
Franciscan Brother Bronislaus built until he died.
Wax Museum of St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri
Presidents, biblical figures, celebrities, and a two-basement Chamber of Horrors.
Bonne Terre Mine: Billion Gallon Lake
Bonne Terre, Missouri
Lead mine closed in 1962 and reopened as a tourist attraction. Features the World's Largest Subterranean Lake.
World's Largest Ball of Twine?
Branson, Missouri
At Ripley's, certified by Guiness, surrounded by other oddities. But the largest?
Military Museums of Fort Leonard Wood
Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
Three free, eclectic museums under one roof: Chemical Corps, MPs, Engineers.
Leila's Hair Museum
Independence, Missouri
Housed at the Victorian Hairwork Society, it's a personal collection of hair wreaths and human hair art.
Titanic: World's Largest Museum Attraction
Branson, Missouri
The doomed ocean liner is taking on passengers on the main strip in Branson.
Fantastic Caverns
Springfield, Missouri
See Nature's mostly unspoiled beauty by jeep in "America's Ride-Thru Cave."
Meramec Caverns
Stanton, Missouri
Popular commercial cave, a hideout of Jesse James, and a place where you can see an American Flag projected onto a limestone wall.
Precious Moments Inspirational Park
Carthage, Missouri
Sprawling, multi-million-dollar complex attracts fanatical collectors of the adorable angel statuettes, but all fanatics are welcome.
Trunkations
Monument Shows That America Is More Centered
Plato - Ten years is a long time. But is it long enough to merit a monument? The village of Plato, Missouri, says "Yes!" Full story
Videos from the Road
Road trip clips, owner rants, art and junk in Missouri Videos.
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Offbeat Landmarks and Oddities
Choice field reports and tips. Also see: Complete list of Missouri attractions.
- Bonne Terre: Bonne Terre Mine: Billion Gallon Lake
- Branson: Giant Fiddle and Banjo
- Branson: Titanic Museum
- Branson: Veterans Memorial Museum
- Branson: Waltzing Waters
- Branson: World's Largest Ball of Twine?
- Brunswick: World's Largest Pecan
- Carthage: Marlin Perkins Statue
- Carthage: Precious Moments Chapel
- Charleston: Boomland [tips]
- Chillicothe: Home of Sliced Bread
- Clayton: Terminator Cube
- Columbia: Beetle Bailey Statue [tips]
- Defiance: Daniel Boone's Grave?
- Eureka: Black Madonna of Czestochowja Shrine and Grotto [tips]
- Excelsior Springs: Hall of Waters
- Fort Leonard Wood: Military Museums of Fort Leonard Wood
- Fort Leonard Wood: Temporary Buildings of World War II [tips]
- Hannibal: Mark Twain Cave [tips]
- Hornersville: Buster Brown's Grave
- Hornersville: Spook Light [tips]
- Hornet: Tri-state Spook Light [tips]
- Independence: Hair Museum
- Kansas City: World's Largest Shuttlecocks [tips]
- Kearney: Jesse James Homestead
- King City: Giant Gas Pump [tips]
- Marionville: White Squirrel Capital of the World
- Marshall: Jim the Wonder Dog Park
- Pacific: Black Madonna Shrine and Grottoes
- Plattsburg: President for a Day
- Point Lookout: Beverly Hillbillies Car, Ralph Foster Museum
- Richland: Caveman Barbecue [tips]
- Rolla: Stubby Stonehenge
- Sikeston: Home of Throwed Rolls, Lambert's Cafe [tips]
- St. Joseph: Glore Psychiatric Museum
- St. Joseph: Heaton-Bowman-Smith and Sidenfaden Chapel Funeral Museum
- St. Joseph: Patee House Museum
- St. Joseph: Prince Eric of Sunbeam
- St. Joseph: Where Jesse James was Killed
- St. Louis: Giant Shoe made of Shoes [tips]
- St. Louis: City Museum
- St. Louis: Chuck Berry Statue
- St. Louis: Griot Museum of Black History
- St. Louis: Hollow Head
- St. Louis: Monkey Man
- St. Louis: Wax Museum of St. Louis
- Springfield: Bass Pro Shops
- Springfield: Big Fork
- Springfield: Fantastic Caverns
- Stanton: Jesse James Didn't Die!
- Stanton: Meramec Caverns
- Sumner: World's Largest Goose
- University City: Fish on a Bicycle
- Warrensburg: Old Drum
- Webb City: Giant Praying Hands
- Weldon Spring: Nuclear Waste Adventure Trail [tips]
- Weston: World's Largest Ball Of String
