Places stowersshawna Wants to Go

This 16th-century pole was once used in brutal public executions.

This 19th-century religious artwork was once highly controversial—because it was donated to the church by a divorcee.

This deceivingly ordinary warehouse hides an enormous collection of pop culture treasures.

This baseball diamond was home to the Rockford Peaches, a team featured in the hit film "A League of Their Own."

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

A six-story-tall golden pyramid, surrounded by a moat.

A river with some unusual, and occasionally dangerous, habits.

The spaceship-like theater, which is still in use, was one of the most popular exhibits at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

Behind a modern brick exterior lies the oldest continuously-operating lunch-car diner in the United States.

This softly rounded mansion was built without corners not to avoid evil spirits, but to make them more comfortable.

This small-town opera house has appeared much more in national culture and history than its charming setting might suggest.

The Bong-area park police have asked visitors to please, stop stealing the signs.

Home to the world's largest refracting telescope and the birthplace of modern astrophysics.

This lakefront cottage was crafted in the 1800s and was once a sanitorium.

Where experiments are conducted on all things wood.

The final resting place of one of Thomas Jefferson's formerly enslaved sons.

A largely forgotten and touching neoclassical marble fountain overlooking a bear mound effigy.

This forgotten beach house built to look like a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece overlooks a hidden beach.

A hundred-year-old museum filled with giant physics toys and experiments designed by grad students.

A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.

The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"