Places alaskanmoss Wants to Go

This unassuming city park is home to three different types of Native American mounds.

The oldest house in Galena, Illinois, now is a reminder of when this city was the world's lead mining capital.

A mini Wrigley Field for mini baseball players.

A long lost multi-cultural music venue used to reside in the bottom floor of Chicago's Flat Iron Building.

Pumpkin-like gargoyles and grotesques peer down from the rooftop of this unassuming apartment building in Illinois.

This historic store hides a museum exhibiting a shoe-sizing x-ray machine and a pair of kicks that once belonged to the world's tallest man.

One of the largest carillons in the world, this giant instrument has 67 cast-iron bells played by a keyboard.

Parking lot where a Chicago mayor was inaugurated under very sketchy circumstances.

This simple gravestone remembers a pig who single-hoofedly raised $19,000,000 for the Navy.

An Art Deco gem that held together the artistic heart of an agricultural community for 92 years.

The young Black revolutionary was killed before getting to see a non-segregated pool in his hometown.

Now nearly abandoned, Kaskaskia was once the capital of Illinois and one of the most important towns on the upper Mississippi.

Odd, decrepit fountain honors Chicago author who had mixed feelings about his hometown.

With 8,000 pipes this giant instrument is the most versatile theatre pipe organ ever built.

The world's largest covered wagon is piloted by a giant Lincoln lawyer.

Chicago’s incendiary role in the labor movement.

A tribute to one granddaughter's old apartment which now represents the whims of each visitor.

This house renovated by Frank Lloyd Wright was the centerpiece of a lavish 20th-century estate.

A former atom smasher turned into an art gallery.

Built in 1869, this now-retired structure looks more like a medieval fortress than a county lock-up.

The last masonry skyscraper ever built reveals a transitional moment in architectural history.

Tucked away amongst townhomes lies a restored, early 20th-century tea house and garden, the only remains of a historic estate.

The only place in America where anyone who wants can shovel coal aboard an antique train.

"No writer ever gave more to a city and got back less.”