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Sights & Activities

Come and enjoy river front activities, great downtown attractions, and some of the best museums in America. St. Louis best destination....

Gateway Arch
This massive stainless steel monument put St. Louis on the map.

Memorial Dr St Louis, MO 63102-1882 Phone (877) 982-1410 Cross streets Between Highway 64/40 and Washington Avenue

The Scene Part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, the Gateway Arch marks the entrance to the American West. The Old Courthouse and the Museum of Westward Expansion are also on the grounds and together make a great day of St. Louis sightseeing. What to Do Consider standing in the usually long line for a tram ride to the top of the 630-foot arch, the nation's tallest monument. The 60-minute ride is fairly slow and not at all scary, so don't be afraid to give it a go. If you do suffer from claustrophobia or vertigo, skip the tram and take a seat on a park bench around the landmark and enjoy its beauty from ground level. History buffs should check out "Monument to the Dream," a documentary about the construction of the stainless steel behemoth.

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12th St St Louis, MO 63118-1852 Phone (314) 577-2626 Cross streets Lynch Street

The Scene This 100-acre beer plant hosts tours that take visitors through its brewing process, from aging to packaging. For generations, the Busch family has passed its beer dynasty from one son to the next, charging each with maintaining its subjects' love for barley and hops. They're also asked to discover new combinations of brew to please steel workers, wine-cooler chicks and starched-shirted executives. The Tour Visitors first walk through the regal stables and paddock of the company's world-famous Budweiser Clydesdales. Next, the tour moves on to the beech-wood aging cellar and historic brew house and ends at the packaging plant. Touring the facility, with its gargoyles and archways and trams, is more fun than you'd imagine. Possibly the best part of the tour comes at the end, when the tour group is ushered into the hospitality room for beer samples and pretzels.

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111 Stadium Plaza St Louis, MO 63102-1716 Phone (314) 231-6340 Cross streets Walnut Street

The Scene Right across from Busch Stadium is a neat little museum devoted to the history of baseball in St. Louis. Inside the Cardinals Hall of Fame (in the same building as the International Bowling Museum), you'll find more than 100 years of baseball history. Among the exhibits is the 1962 Corvette the team gave Mark McGwire after he broke Roger Maris' single-season home-run record, plenty of St. Louis Browns memorabilia, replicas of old Sportsman's Park and Busch Stadium, seats from old Busch Stadium, Cardinals world championship trophies, and all the pictures and mementos you'd expect in a hall of fame. What to Do While there, you can also take a guided tour of Busch Stadium, which allows you to see the Batters Eye Club, the dugout, the press box, the refurbished Cardinals clubhouse, the gift shop and much more.

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10501 Gravois Rd St Louis, MO 63123-1808 Phone (314) 843-1700 Cross streets Between Musick Road and McNary Drive

The Scene On the Busch family's ancestral estate, a 281-acre wildlife preserve, exotic animals, enormous Clydesdales and talking parrots are commonplace. A tram ride takes you through park grounds where deer, zebras and other hoofed creatures stroll freely. Through a thick forest, Ulysses S. Grant's cabin, built in 1856, holds history buff's attention with displays documenting the past. Children can feed llamas and goats and are free to pet smaller animals. What to Do Budget at least three hours to stroll past exotic species, watch elephant and bird shows, peruse the carriage collection and Grant's cabin, take a tram ride through Deer Park and visit the stables of the massive Clydesdales. After all that, you'll surely be ready for a leisurely lunch and a beer in the Bauernhof courtyard, where guests 21 years and over can sample the brews of Anheuser-Busch on the house.

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111 Stadium Plaza Saint Louis, MO 63102-1716 Phone (314) 231-6340 Cross streets 11th Street

Don't Miss The 50,000 square foot International Bowling Museum is a strangely fascinating place for fans and novices alike. The entire history of bowling is detailed here, from the replicas of ancient bowling artifacts found in the tomb of an Egyptian youth who died in 5,200 B.C. to the dangerous life of a 20th century pinboy. Yeah, bowling lanes used to be manual. Working lanes are available for those who want exhibit their prowess or test their skill. More History In addition to delving into bowling's ancient past, you can take a trip down memory lane into more than 100 years of St. Louis Cardinals facts and memorabilia without leaving the premises. St. Louis' well loved team houses its history in the Hall of Fame located on the other side of the building.

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516 S Kirkwood Rd Kirkwood, MO 63122-5926 Phone (314) 822-8900 Cross streets Woodbine Street

The Skinny The Magic House is built for kids, but adults love it as much as they do. It's a completely interactive, always surprising collection of exhibits that show us how the world around us works. The dress-up areas are popular, as are the pizza parlour and grocery store with scanner and register. Don't Miss These Sit down on a wooden seat and pull yourself up with a pulley. Then see how much easier it is with two pulleys--or three. Capture your shadow in mid-jump on the shadow wall. Play with the delay in a telephone or make your hair stand on end with electricity. Fly down a slide built in the walls of the house. Catch and release magnetic fish. If school were this much fun, there'd be no need for recess.

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