University City's quirkiest resident lives in a park named after its first.

This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.

The first rural cemetery west of the Mississippi is home to the elaborate tombs of St. Louis' local beer barons.

This is not your typical jungle gym.

A big museum full of little worlds.

A chessmaster's dream destination.

The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.

This spot in St. Louis, marked with a simple sign, has seen more pro baseball than just about anywhere else in the world.

An abandoned meat mecca now serves as an excellent locale for urban exploration.

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

Man-made geyser that rises to the exact height of the Gateway Arch.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

An abandoned factory along the Mississippi coated by a giant mural.

A floating museum that was sunk by a flood and left to rot in the tides.

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.

Artifacts and memories from the Vietnam war, located in a place that experienced it first hand.

Have fun at the world's first Buddhist waterslide park.

Giant pagoda houses the car that drove Thích Quảng Đức to his death by self-immolation.

Vietnam's feral abandoned water park offers access to a post-apocalyptic funscape, now with fewer crocodiles.

A Surreal flight of architectural fancy in Vietnam's Central Highlands.

Fowl, love and death in Vietnam.