Places adrajohnson Wants to Go

Featuring a Loretta Lynn display and a re-created coal mine exhibit.

A museum to a cave explorer whose tragic death was a media sensation, and whose corpse became a tourist attraction.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

Wander the locker-lined, terrazzo-floored halls and sleep in a former classroom at this unique inn.

Northern Kentucky’s very own Notre Dame showcases intricate stained glass and the bones of saints.

The Trappist monk, prophet-poet, and rebel never really got to live out the eremitic life he was seeking.

The taxidermied body of a bear that was a casualty of a drug trafficker’s bizarre death.

He’s not from around here.

A shop for all your magical needs and notions.

A ceramic-tiled room at the Seelbach Hotel said to have secret tunnels used by Al Capone and a crowd that helped inspire F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby.'

The collection of a paranormal investigator who traveled the country collecting haunted items and stories.

Veritable museum of 20th century country music history.

A whimsical folk art garden full of punny pieces and a diorama containing 3,500 toys.

A former 19th-century tavern, famous for its peach brandy and honey concoction.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.