GPS City Guide

St. Louis sits at the crossroads of America — literally. Where the Missouri River empties into the Mississippi, where North met South during the Civil War, where East handed off to West during the great expansion. Founded by French fur traders in 1764, this city watched Lewis and Clark set out in 1804, hosted the world in 1904, gave birth to ragtime and rock and roll, and wrestled with America's most painful contradictions: slavery, segregation, urban renewal, and renewal again. This tour will take you through all of it — the triumphs and the tragedies — across 40 stops that span more than a thousand years of human history.