10 Wonders of St. Louis: Explore Hidden Gems with Jack Corbett
Discover the 10 Wonders of St. Louis with Jack Corbett, exploring remarkable and underappreciated sites, like Forest Park and the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
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Take Cahokia Mounds, for instance.
During the day one will find people from all over the world studying
what remains of the great civilization that flourished here one thousand
years ago. But you will very seldom find anyone from St. Louis
here.
And although there might be a quarter of a million people clogging up the Saint Louis
waterfront watching the fourth of July fireworks, just ten miles
away there are just several hundred people on top of Monks Mound
enjoying an unsurpassed display of the fireworks but without the traffic
jams afterwards. Truth is, people rarely see or appreciate
the so many outstanding things staring them right in the face.
Most St. Louisans are not even aware that the best night life in the area is on the Illinois side of the river.
Most have never been to Shaw's Botanical Gardens considered by many to be one of the top five in the world. Or that Washington University really is one of the top universities in the entire country, that the largest beer company in the world is based in St. Louis and that the tours here are free.
Union Station, which is now a classy shopping mall, was once the busiest train station in the world and Forest Park once hosted the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, an event so gigantic and magnificent that it exponentially eclipsed anything like it today.
Hopefully both long term St. Louis residents and tourists alike coming to my web site will experience a few St. Louis area gems they were never aware of before.
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