Places alexz Wants to Go

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

An eclectic assortment of medieval architecture in a small Iowa town.

A mysteriously dark cemetery monument fuels stories and legends galore.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.

This monument to the victims of a tragic explosion is said to turn and look at passing cars.

This eight-mile stretch of road gets its name from a local legend about a lost soul searching for his head.

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

A four story, football field-sized, nine-grotto creation made of shells, minerals, and rare stones.

This seemingly charming home memorializes and honors the victims of a century-old unsolved murder.

Sleepy Minneapolis block beats Guinness Record for most churches on one city block.

A giant granite cross remembers missionary Father Frederic Baraga, and his safe passage across an angry Lake Superior.

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

A Building for Your (Former) Funerary Needs.

A Norwegian church that was built before Wisconsin was even a state has been entirely moved to a nicer spot.

The Art Deco Silver Screen.

The oldest continually used church in Minneapolis also sells great meat pies.

A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.

This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.

A riverside park built around the ruins of a massive dam that collapsed in 1909.

A Perpetually Under construction Park.

The home where a lovestruck Fitzgerald wrote his first published novel, "This Side of Paradise."

A mapping error in the 19th century made loggers think this section of the forest was underwater.