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Located in nearby St. Charles, this museum features full-scale replicas of the historic boats used in a famous 1804 river expedition.
What is the Lewis & Clark Boat House and Museum?
This ancient city site just east of St. Louis preserves the remains of the largest prehistoric Native American city north of Mexico.
What is Cahokia?
The city of Galena gets its name from the natural mineral form of lead sulfide, which sparked the first major mineral rush in the United States. What is this mineral?
What is Galena (or Lead Ore)?
According to the U.S. Interstate Highway numbering system, primary routes that run strictly North and South are assigned this type of number.
What are odd numbers?
This global food giant got its start right near Galena when its founder began a cheese-buying business in the area back in 1903.
What is Kraft Foods (founded by J.L. Kraft)?
The exact structural relationship between the Gateway Arch's height and its width
What is they are equal? - as wide as it is tall?
Located right along the old Route 66 frontage road in Raymond, Illinois, this heartwarming monument has spent decades wishing travelers a safe journey.
What is the Shrine of Our Lady of the Highways?
The northern Illinois region around Galena is part of this unusual landscape that escaped much of the last Ice Age's glacial leveling.
What is the Driftless Area?
To prevent dirty shoe soles from touching your clean clothes inside a suitcase, you can slip the bottoms of your walking shoes into this disposable hotel bathroom item.
What is a shower cap?
The Mississippi River town just north of St. Louis where in 1858, Lincoln debated Douglas
What is Alton, Illinois?
The historic permanent home of the second oldest symphony orchestra in the U.S.
What is Powell Symphony Hall?
This historic Route 66 bridge just north of St. Louis has a famous 30-degree bend in the middle.
What is the Chain of Rocks Bridge?
Galena was once one of the busiest ports between these two cities.
What are St. Paul and St. Louis?
In motorcoach industry lingo, this "spooky" term describes driving an empty bus to pick up passengers or returning an empty bus after a drop-off.
What is a "deadhead" run?
Long before entering politics, a young, athletic Abraham Lincoln was an elite competitor in this physical sport, reportedly losing only one out of roughly 300 matches and earning an induction into its National Hall of Fame.
What is wrestling?
Found in East St. Louis, this multi-level viewing ramp offers what many consider the absolute best head-on photographic view of the Gateway Arch.od
What is the Mississippi River Overlook?
This is Illinois' nickname
What is the Prairie State?
This historic Galena hotel, built in 1855, is the oldest operating hotel in Illinois and features a balcony where both Lincoln and Grant gave speeches.
What is the DeSoto House Hotel?
Instead of folding shirts and pants flat like you do for a dresser drawer, packing experts say you should use this specific motion to save space and prevent hard creases.
What is rolling them?
Before answering the call to lead the Union Army, a cash-strapped Ulysses S. Grant moved to Galena in 1860 to work as a humble $50-a-month clerk in this family-owned Main Street business.
What is the Grant family leather store?
The historic Midtown entertainment district at Grand and Olive that hosted jazz icons like Josephine Baker
What is the Grand Center?
To avoid using bridges, early 19th-century travelers moving goods along the river networks frequently relied on these flat-bottomed watercraft to cross.
What are ferries (or flatboats)?
Galena's downtown survived much of the 20th-century modernization that changed other towns, helping preserve its remarkable collection of this.
What is 19th-century architecture?
If you are prone to motion sickness or highway nausea, travel experts recommend booking a seat in this specific section of the motorcoach, where the vehicle's suspension vibrates the least.
What is directly over the tires / middle of the bus? (The very front has more windshield motion, and the very back bounces over the rear axle).
Although he went on to co-found one of the largest brewing empires in the world, German immigrant Eberhard Anheuser actually made his initial fortune in St. Louis manufacturing this completely different household commodity.
What is soap? (He was a prosperous soap and candle maker who took over a failing brewery to settle a debt.)