On May 25, 1968, the Gateway Arch in St. Louis was dedicated.
I was in St. Louis last August to celebrate Missouri's Bicentennial of Statehood.
1. the bears on the Missouri State Seal
2. Ted Drewes
3. the Gateway Arch
4. George Washington Carver
5. George Washington Carver National Memorial
6. Negro League Baseball Museum
7. Munger Moss Motel
8. Meramec Caverns
9. Forest Park in St. Louis
10. Mark Twain
11. Depot Inn and Suites in La Plata
12. Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site
13. Katy Trail
14. Shrine of St. Rose Philippine Duchesne
15. Basilica of St. Louis
16. the Old Courthouse in St. Louis
17. St. Louis Science Center
18. former Millennium Hotel, St. Louis
19. Busch Stadium
20. Kauffmman Stadium
21. Old Union Station of St. Louis
22. National World War I Museum and Memorial
23. Lake of the Ozarks
24. Fort Leonard Wood
25. Route 66 Museum, Lebanon
26. Amtrak's Missouri River Runner train
27. the ice cream cone
28. the 1904 St. Louis Summer Olympics
29. the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
30. Schnuck's
31. Hallmark
32. Tums
33. the Missouri River
34. the fiddle
35. Panera and the St. Louis Bread Company
36. the Pony Express National Museum
37. Scott Joplin House State Historic Site
38. Museum of Transportation
39. Table Rock Lake
40. Branson Strip
41. Branson Scenic Railway
42. Pearl Brothers True Value Hardware, Joplin
43. Grand Falls
44. Josephine Baker
45. Walter Cronkite
46. Hannibal
47. Venerable Father Augustus Tolton
48. Washington University
49. University of Missouri Columbia
50. Truman the Tiger
51. St. Genevieve
52. General John J. Pershing
53. National Frontier Trails Museum
54. 1980 Population Center of the US near DeSoto in Jefferson County
55. 1990 Population Center of the US near Steelville in Crawford County
56. 2000 Population Center of the US near Edgar Springs in Phelps County
57. 2010 Population Center of the US near Plato in Texas County
58. 2020 Population Center of the US near Hartville in Wright County
59. Bevo Mill, St. Louis
60. Chuck Berry
61. Fitz's Root Beer
62. Blueberry Hill Restaurant
63. Frank Lloyd Wright House in Sugar Creek, Kirkwood
64. Route 66 State Park
65. Black Madonna Shrine and Grottos
66. Sunset Motel, Villa Ridge
67. World's Largest Rocker, Fanning
68. Wagon Wheel Motel, Cuba
69. Route 66 Motors, Dillon
70. Mule Trading Post, Dillon
71. Totem Pole Trading Post, Rolla
72. Stonehenge Replica, Rolla
73. Old Stagecoach Stop, Waynesville
74. Edwin Hubble
75. Castle ruins in Ha Ha Tonka State Park
76. Wild Animal Safari, Holman
77. Red's Giant Hamburg stand, Springfield
78. Steak n Shake Flagship restaurant
79. Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World
80. Nathan Ed Galloway
81. Nathanael Greene Park, Springfield
82. Typewriter Toss, Springfield
83. Boots Court Motel, Carthage
84. Phelps House, Carthage
85. Precious Moments Chapel and Garden
86. King Jack Park, Webb City
87. Marcelline, where Walt Disney lived
88. Prairie State Park
89. Old Courthouse, St. Louis
90. First Missouri Capitol State Historic Site, St. Charles
91. St. Charles Main Street Historic District
92. Eads Bridge in St. Louis
93. Graham Cave
94. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
95. Wilson's Creek National Battlefield
96. Fort Osage
97. Mutual Musicians' Foundation Building
98. Kansas City Style Jazz
99. Patee House
100. Laura Ingalls Wilder
101. Laura Ingalls Wilder Home in Mansfield
102. St. Francois Mountains
103. Harry Truman
104. Harry Truman National Historic Site
105. Harry Truman Presidential Library and Museum
106. St. Louis University
107. Taum Sauk Mountain, the highest point of elevation in the state
108. Fort D, Cape Girardeau
109. Emily Newell Blair
110. Springfield Opera House
111. Laura Runyon
112. Kansas City Comets
113. Josephine Silone Yates
114. Kansas City Scouts
115. Helen Guthrie Miller
116. Kansas City Mavericks
117. Sarah Chandler Coates
118. St. Louis Ambush
119. Anna H. Jones
120. St. Louis Bilikens
121. Myrtle Foster Cook
122. St. Louis Blues
123. Ida Bowman Becks
124. Springfield Cardinals
125. Alma Nash
126. Rose Theather in Maryville
127. St. Louis Mercantile Library
128. Florence Wyman Richardson
129. Marian Lewis English Clarke
130. Grace Goode Clarke
131. Phoebe Couzins
132. Edna Fischel Gellhorne
133. Virginia Minor
134. Statler Hotel in St. Louis
135. Century Boat Club
136. Mural Mile, St. Louis
137. The Field House Museum, St. Louis
138. Tower Grove Park, St. Louis
139. the Missouri Bootheel
140. Lewis and Clark Boathouse Museum
141. Fort Bellefontaine
142. Clark's Hill/Norton State Historic Site, Jefferson City
143. Beggs Family Farm, Sikeston
144. Annual National Tom Sawyer Days
145. Silver Dollar City
146. Kansas City Renaissance Festival
147. St. Louis Art Fair
148. American Royal Barbeque
149. Ranch Rodeo, Kansas City
150. Old Drum Days Festival, Warrensburg
151. Dogwood Azalea Festival, Charleston
152. Twain on Main, Hannibal
153. Sally Mountain Park Bluegrass Festival
154. Show Off Auto Show, Bridgeton
155. Trails West Festival, St. Joseph
156. Santa Fe Trail Heritage Day, Marshall
157. Luxenhaus Farm, Marthasville
158. Deutsch Country Days, Marthasville
159. Redmon's Candy Factory, Phillipsburg
160. Uranus Fudge Factory and General Store, St. Robert
161. Nelson-Atkins Art Museum, Kansas City
162. Arabia Steamboat Museum, Kansas City
163. World's Largest Toy Museum Complex, Branson
164. James Cash Penney
165. Kansas City Monarchs
166. Kansas City Royals
167. St. Louis Cardinals
168. 1985 I-70 World Series
169. St. Louis Rams
170. Missouri Mule
171. Wainwright Building, St. Louis
172. Bollinger Mill, in Burfordville
173. Burfordville Covered Bridge
174. Mark Twain National Forest
175. Fantastic Caverns
176. Branson Ferris Wheel (once at Navy Pier)
177. The Shepherd of the Hills
178. Branson Celebrity Car Museum
179. Ozark National Scenic Riverways
180. Alley Spring and Mill, in Eminence
181. Big Spring
182. Round Spring and Cave
183. Devils Well
184. Blue Spring
185. Rocky Falls
186. Klepzig Mill
187. Jam Up Cave
188. Welch Spring and Hospital
189. Kansas City Barbeque
190. Gooey Butter Cake
191. Toasted ravioli
192. St. Louis-style ribs
193. the ice cream cone
194. Sugar Camp Scenic Byway
195. Ozark Mountain Parkway
196. Spirit of Kansas City Byway
197. Missouri Pacific Railroad
198. Branson Scenic Railway
199. Hawthorn, the state flower
200. Willard Duncan Vandiver
As extensive as this list is, I may have ommitted so other noteworthy parts of Missouri. If so, please feel free to reach out to me and share what those people, places, and things are.
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