The Arch in St. Louis is simply awesome. It towers over the city and reflects the sun brilliantly...I think I took over a hundred pictures. To see the Arch from a riverboat on the Mississippi River (which, by the way, is not a very pretty river), to see it standing straight underneath, to see it from atop the Cahokia Mounds in Illinois...I was endlessly fascinated by it. We rode to the top for great views of the city and saw a very good documentary on its construction - can't we build more similarly exciting public projects in the US?
We then headed back to Illinois to visit the Cahokia Mounds - a World Heritage site and National Historic Landmark. It's the largest prehistoric earthen construction in the Americas, consisting of large mounds built over hundreds of acres. These mounds used to be the foundations for homes, temples and funeral pyres. Cahokia was the largest city in the US until it was surpassed by Philly in the 1800s.
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