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Making Your Way Through Missouri

While making your way through Missouri, be sure to check out some of the most iconic places and amazing attractions "The Show Me State" has to offer.

A pond with harp-playing angels at the Missouri Botanical Gardens.

An 18-foot model of the Titanic at the Titanic Museum in Branson.

Stingrays at the St. Louis Zoo. The 90-acre zoo is home to over 5,000 animals.

The American Jazz Museum located in Kansas City. This is the only museum in the world solely focused on the preservation, exhibition and advancement of jazz music.

The GIANT Swing at Silver Dollar City theme park in Branson.

Lurking on the front lawn of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, this giant bronze spider was designed by Louise Bourgeois.

This 300,000-square-feet Bass Pro Shop is the largest store in Springfield.

The Anheuser Busch Brewery bottling plant at in St Louis.

An antique horse carriage at the Museum of Westward Expansion in St. Louis.

A night view of the Bloch Building at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City.

The Showboat Branson Belle, on beautiful Table Rock Lake in Branson, offers 3-course dinners and a variety show.

The St. Louis skyline along the Mississippi River. St Louis is also known as "Gateway City" because it was located at the end of the first leg of the Oregon Trail and considered the dividing mark between the Eastern and Western US in the 1800s.

The Harry S. Truman Library and Museum in Independence, MO.

Located near Van Buren, MO, Big Spring is one of the largest springs in the US. It originates at the base of a bluff on the west side of the Current River Valley in the Missouri Ozarks.

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