You can crawl through secret passageways, run in a human-sized hamster wheel, play in inflatable ball pits and even climb through a shaky wire tunnel attached to an airplane 50 feet in the air.
Before I visited St. Louis in December, I was trying to figure out what to see there besides the Gateway Arch. Just about everyone I talked to mentioned the City Museum. I went with a friend on a Wednesday afternoon. It was a school day so attendance was, thankfully, sparse. But they left before long, and soon we were crawling around the secret passages and unseen tunnels in which one room led to another.
It took a bit of wandering around, but we found the stairs and headed up to a human hamster wheel, where we took turns trying to get the thing going. It was a challenge. We also found some of the giant slides. If you have the patience and stamina to climb up 10 floors, you can ride a spiral slide all the way back down.
The spiral slide was fun, but we enjoyed the smaller 3-story slide by the entrance more. The front slide features bright colors all the way to the bottom. But eventually on the fourth floor, perhaps? Known as MonstroCity, the outside part of the City Museum features two large Saber 40 aircrafts suspended in the air.
You can crawl through wrought-iron slinky tunnels to reach these planes, where you can visit the cockpits or stand on the wings. Climbing through the iron slinky from one plane to another was a bit scary, but in a good way, like a thrill ride. While climbing through the tunnels, I noticed a vintage clothing store on one of the floors inside the building.
