The other day, as I was driving along Route 66 into St. Louis, I had my eyes wide open and constantly scanning for a good vantage point to capture the city’s most recognizable landmark, the Gateway Arch. Â I’d seen lots of images of this monument to the western expansion of these United States, most quite good, but none the way I would want to shoot them. Â I was in luck, though, because I spotted this cool URBEX (Urban Exploration) vantage point from which to photograph that Arch my way.

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