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Wonders Of Wildlife Aquarium and National Museum

Wonders Of Wildlife Aquarium and National Museum is one of Springfield, MO's newest attractions. The 350,000 square-foot museum contains a 1.5-million-gallon aquarium aquarium and a mile and a half of exhibits. Wonders Of Wildlife Aquarium and Nation… Read more
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Roaring River State Park - Fishing, Swimming, Hiking & More!

Roaring River State Park, located West of Branson in southwest Missouri, is probably most famous for the rainbow trout found in its namesake's clear waters. But that's not the only reason to visit! Roaring River State Park is a 4,093-acre park about … Read more
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The Mark Twain Museum & Boyhood Home in Hannibal, MO

Step back in time to the house and town that inspired Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and much more at The Mark Twain Museum & Boyhood Home in Hannibal, Missouri. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 – 1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, is an Am… Read more
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Fantastic Caverns - America's Ride-Thru Cave!

Fantastic Caverns, in Springfield, Missouri, is the only show cave in North America to offer a completely ride-through tour. Sit back in your Jeep-drawn tram car as it takes you along the path of an ancient underground river. Missouri is known as the… Read more
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Leila's Hair Museum - the World's Only Hair Museum!

Independence, Missouri is home to the world’s only hair museum. Leila’s Hair Museum displays thousands of works of art, all made from real human hair! Hair art? Hair museum? Are we pulling your leg with all this hairy business? Absolutely not. Hair a… Read more
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The Steamboat Arabia Museum - 200 Tons of Pre-Civil War Artifacts

The steamboat Arabia sank on the Missouri River near Kansas City in 1856. Its rediscovery in 1988 revealed 200 tons of remarkably preserved, pre-Civil War artifacts - the largest collection in the world. Come see it at Kansas City's Arabia Steamboat … Read more
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The "World's Largest" in Missouri and Where To Find Them

Missouri is known as the "Show-Me State" because of native skepticism, they say; but I think it might also apply to the number of state attractions listed as being the "World's Largest." I mean, who doesn't want to see the biggest gas pump, chess pie… Read more
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Explore Missouri Highway 36 - VFW Memorial Highway

Invention, innovation, history, Hollywood, heroes, and more: Missouri's Highway 36 may seem like just another long stretch of 4-lane highway ... but you'd be surprised. U.S. Route 36 , known as Route 8 from 1922-1926, runs east–west through six state… Read more
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Discover Southeast Missouri's Elephant Rocks State Park

Elephant Rocks State Park, located in Southeast Missouri, is a unique geological formation, scenic landmark, and popular state park all rolled into one. At first blush, it seems a bit of a stretch to imagine a cluster of giant, billion-year-old bould… Read more
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SubTropolis - World's Largest Underground Business Complex

Deep beneath Kansas City, carved out of a layer of 270-million-year-old limestone, there is another world. A busting, productive world some 100 or more feet underground. A sprawling, subterranean complex the size of 140 football fields. SubTropolis. … Read more