The Playground's the Thing

Patrick Giblin

You may never look at playgrounds the same way after you've seen City Museum in St. Louis. Always under construction of one sort or another, it opened in 1997 on the site of the International Shoe Company and covers 600,000 square feet. And when you've got that much room to play with, you'd better get inventive. Which they have. In addition to the aquarium, ball pits, and Ferris wheel (on the roof, of course), there's the cantilevered school bus, hundreds of feet of tunnels, two 10-story slides, a restaurant, and ~ get this ~ a bar, among other pleasures (story, tons of pix): http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/06/city-museum/?src=footer