Explore St. Louis

It's not as old as the Cathedral of Notre Dame, but it's built from a gazillion tons of concrete. It doesn't offer as many trains as New York's Grand Central Station... yet. But there is one thing that St. Louis' City Museum shares with these famous places: they're all on the same list of "Greatest Public Spaces in the World."

New York-based nonprofit Project for Public Spaces named ten landmarks from around the world that were being added to a collection of humanity's hot spots. City Museum was one of them.

Locations were ranked by criteria such as accessibility, atmosphere and attraction as a social environment.

The organization, which has helped some 1,000 communities in 12 countries improve their public offerings, describes City Museum as "an amusement park in the middle of downtown St. Louis... a fantastically imaginative collection of play spaces, exhibits and sculptures."

So, head to City Museum so you can say you’ve stood, slid, climbed, and created art within one of the world’s best public spots.