Since the 1904 World's Fair, the St. Louis Art Museum has been one of the United State's principal art museums. Expand your cultural knowledge and feast your eyes on artwork from around the globe.
Take a stroll through Forest Park, and be sure to visit Emerson Grand Basin and Art Hill while you're there. Emerson Grand Basin was the central piece at the 1904 World's Fair, and currently contains eight magnificent fountains. Art Hill, a natural amphitheatre, is the perfect place for a picnic for two during the warmer months and the perfect place to go sledding when it snows.
Enjoy a good fright? Check out the Lemp Mansion, a historic building that has been remodeled into a restaurant and cozy inn. Owned by the unfortunate Lemp family during the 1860s, the ghosts of this family supposedly haunt the mansion today. Each room has a tale of its own. Guests can take a tour of this historic and haunted mansion, participate in the Murder Mystery Dinner Theater on weekends and party with the ghosts during Halloween.
Dust off your armor, don your eye patch, and come out to the St. Louis Renaissance Faire and Pirate Festival! It's a real Midsummer Night's Dream come true for fans of either Shakespeare or swashbuckling.