If you’ve ever read a fairy tale and thought “that village built on a hillside looks charming but probably doesn’t exist in real life,” then you haven’t been to Parkville, Missouri yet.
This town looks like someone took a storybook illustration of a quaint European village, dropped it in the Midwest, and then forgot to tell anyone it was here.
Parkville cascades down the bluffs above the Missouri River in a series of tiers that create the kind of visual drama usually reserved for places with mountains or at least more interesting topography than Missouri is supposed to have.
The town exists on multiple levels, with buildings, streets, and pathways stacked up the hillside in layers that make you question whether you’re still in the same flat state you’ve been driving through your entire life…