13 Missouri Places You Should NEVER Stop While Driving

There is an underground fire burning right now beneath a St. Louis suburb. It has been burning for fifteen years. Nobody has put it out. Adjacent to that fire is nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project. The state of Missouri and the EPA cannot agree on how close the two have gotten. That is just one of the thirteen places on this list. Missouri is not a state that got unlucky. It is a state that kept getting chosen — for TNT plants, uranium processing, dioxin disposal, extermination orders, and nuclear waste storage. These are the receipts. In this video: Times Beach — the city paid six cents a gallon to spray Agent Orange byproduct on its streets and the children slid around in it Hamburg, Howell, and Toonerville — three towns demolished in 45 days by War Department letter Weldon Spring — a 75-foot concrete burial mound containing 1.5 million cubic yards of radioactive waste, open to hikers Far West — a governor signed an extermination order against 10,000 citizens and Missouri kept it legally valid until 1976 Missouri State Penitentiary — 168 years, 40 executions, Time Magazine's bloodiest 47 acres in America, now a ghost tour Zombie Road — 3.6 miles, documented encounters going back 70 years, $1,000 fine after dark North St. Louis — streets intact, houses gone, infrastructure maintained for a population that left Bridgeton Landfill — underground fire, Manhattan Project waste, 15 years burning, no resolution Kansas City Prospect Avenue — 144 homicides in 2024, 2.77 per week, eighth most dangerous city in America Route 66 bypass towns — bypassed by two miles of interstate, left facing a road that stopped caring The Lemp Mansion — four family suicides, a sealed vault in the basement, dinner reservations open tonight Hannibal — Mark Twain left at 17 and never came back, the town has been living off that departure ever since And the last one — I went there on a date with who is now my wife and I have never been the same since 13 places in Missouri you should never stop while driving. Some of what happened here is history. Some of it is happening right now. If you live in Missouri — we want to hear from you. Tell us the places worth stopping for. We are building the Do Stop Here Missouri video and if your place makes it in we will give you a shout out. Comment below. #Missouri #DontStopHere #UnhingedAmerica #MissouriHistory #Abandoned #TrueHistory #RoadTrip #Haunted #MissouriMysterious #TimesBeach #KansasCity #StLouis #Hannibal #MarkTwain #CityMuseum #GhostTowns #DarkHistory #MissouriTrue