
Photo by Benjamin Scherliss
Forty feet high and 60 feet wide, the landmark sign doesn’t actually sit atop an Amoco—the building below it is home to a BP and Stevenson’s Hi-Pointe Service & Wash

Photo by Rebecca Eilering
Though the proposed Bottle District just north of the dome never came to fruition, the 34-foot-tall steel Vess bottle did recently undergo a makeover to celebrate Vess’ centennial.

Photo by J.R. Johnson
St. Louis’ oldest surviving water tower, located at East Grand and 20th Street, rises 154 feet and was built in 1871, five years before the city and county’s “Great Divorce.”

Photo by Kevin A. Roberts
Why are bicycles painted white and locked to street signs? They’re somber memorials to cyclists hit or killed on the street—a gesture started here in 2003 that’s spread worldwide.