Places alaskanmoss Wants to Go

Eclectic collection of rare and beautiful stones in a historic home.

An actual 1957 Cadillac De Ville, encased in 15 cubic yards of concrete.

The 40-year-old machine serves soda quicker than you can catch it for a mere 75 cents a pop.

The final resting place of up to 6,000 Confederate soldiers, the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

Oversized statues are just the tip of this nostalgic Americana roadside attraction.

Assemble a masterpiece at the first and only North American school exclusively dedicated to mosaic art.

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

Where old school Polish Chicago and young hipster Chicago live side by side.

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

The iconic Chicago sculpture hides a beautiful and easily overlooked plaque on the backside.

In a quiet north Chicago neighborhood rests a stunning relic of the golden age of earthenware design.

Where Cusack's record store from the film "High Fidelity" was located.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

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

This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.