Hammons tower has been the tallest thing around my whole life.

Edit: Fixed spelling.

Hammons tower is definitely the most iconic

The downtown square is pretty recognizable as well

Bass Pro

The bells at Missouri State University Library.

Mexican Villa 😁

Commercial Street

Pythian Castle. Rutledge-Wilson Farm. The Japanese Stroll Garden.

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The underground storage.

The Square, for a lot of reasons.

https://historymuseumonthesquare.org/

https://www.ksmu.org/local-history/2016-02-10/200-years-at-the-center-of-everything-the-history-of-park-central-square-at-the-history-museum

https://africanamericanheritagetrailsgf.org/sites/park-central/

etc

Thanks everyone for these suggestions! These are lots of good locations. Really appreciate the list so thanks again!

If you need some history, run out of Wilson’s Creek battlefield.

The French fry sculpture in the east lawn of the art museum is pretty iconic in the city

Lander's Theater. Also the downtown Y is closing, which is timely.

*Hammons

I would definitely include the fork. Everyone that I know that's ever been to Springfield has a picture with the fork.

The gilloiz would be iconic. Also maybe the footbridge down on commercial.

Wilson's creek national battlefield

Sorry, just saw someone else posted this first.

Thanks

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Wouldn’t any of the cashew chicken restaurants be considered iconic since that’s what Springfield is very much known for.

The zoo

The original location or the massive badass newer location?

Anything to do with Route 66

Just north of the intersection of Kansas Expressway and I44 is the greatest wonder of Springfield: the Kum n Go across from another Kum n Go.

Depends if you want to go classy or hillbilly. For hillbilly you have to go with the OG Bass Pro. For classy I would pick one of the historic buildings or the square downtown. The fork if you know the history behind it is kind of cringe to represent Springfield.

Shrine Mosque

Sun Target II (the french fries)

the big fork

I’d love the know the story behind that. I’ve always seen them and couldn’t figure it out.

It was done to bind an ancient and unspeakable evil force that would destroy all of our state.

Rapid Roberts?

One was Cody’s and the other was Kum and Go. Kum and Go bought out Cody’s and kept both open. So the mystery isn’t how they got there but how Kum and Go keeps both open. My guess is to keep a competitor away.

Wow lol. At least that kinda makes sense.