Places aeholmquist Wants to Go

This secret gem of a toy store houses a rideable carousel populated with fantasy animals.

A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.

17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.

Triangular House built on a leafy residential street in St. Paul.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

Direct, creative challenge to Mother Nature's winter wrath.

Explore the History & Technology of Electronic Communication

The literary king of the Jazz Age was born in this lovely Minnesota home which still honors his legacy.

A treehouse assailed by the elements and the government, now gone.

A museum dedicated to the exploring past, present, and future innovations.

Secret hideaway for an alternative beach experience.

Enter the Forest of the Elves.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

This small, but long-running hobby club has built one of the largest model rail lines in the US.

This modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.

An eccentric park and pool.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

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