Places ametry Wants to Go

A distillery built on (and above!) mobster Dutch Schultz's Prohibition-era underground moonshine business.

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

Arguably the best example of an authentic Dutch windmill in the United States, rivaling its counterparts in the Netherlands.

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

An Iowa town celebrates its heritage with the tallest working Dutch windmill in North America.

A museum devoted to the victims and the survivors of the most catastrophic fire in American history.

Almost half-way between the Equator and North Pole.

A museum celebrating the self-taught artist-environment builder.

An off-the-beaten-path place to literally hang beneath Milwaukee's Holton Street Bridge.

A warning to the weak-kneed: This narrow bridge does its swinging eight stories high.

This monolithic statue was erected in honor of Chief Black Hawk (even if it wasn't made to look like him).

A 30-foot man on a penny-farthing bicycle rides along the banks of the Mississippi.

After four years of grasshopper plagues, this chapel was erected as a plea to God to make them end.

Beating out all other concrete competitors, this massive garden feature's pointy hat has earned it a world record.

A hidden barn-sized rendition of Grant Wood's most famous, and most parodied, painting.

One of the world's premier laboratories for hydraulic engineering research takes full advantage of the water's power.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

The home of 1.5 million wood letters for printing is still a functioning workshop.

The farm toy capital of the world hosts a museum filled with toy tractors dating back to the late 1800s.

A lovely hidden waterfall right off the highway is well worth a stop.

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

This long unused shot tower on the Mississippi remains a point of pride for a small city in Iowa.

A remote hill on a stretch of country road where the laws of physics are defied... or so it seems.

The remains of a bustling turn-of-the-century park built to showcase the wonders of electricity.