Oliver C Joseph

Let your wild side out at the Saint Louis Zoo. Check out exotic animals from all over the world, from Africa to Antarctica. Grab a train ride for a narrated tour around the zoo or get up close and personal with the animals in Discovery Corner and other exhibits and attractions.

Travel back in time when you visit the most accurately restored 19th century building in America. The Campbell House Museum contains original furniture, photographs, paintings and clothing from the Campbell family and is a perfect example of opulent Victorian-style life during the 1880s. This elegant house is known as the premier historic property museum in St. Louis.

If you love Broadway and outdoor theater, the Muny Theater provides the perfect marriage of the two. The oldest outdoor musical theater in America, Muny Theater grew from a simple clearing between two trees into a gigantic, state-of-the-art amphitheater which hosts an average of seven plays each season.

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.