Places AMischiefManaged Wants to Go

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

A sprawling outdoor museum filled with larger-than-life works of art.

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

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

This folk art wall claims to be the world's one and only memorial to the bygone age of hippies.

This abstract sculpture is rumored to cast a hammer-and-sickle shadow once a year.

The clothes-washing king doubles as a community center with some unusual features, including an aviary filled with finches.

A curious collection of miniatures in a quiet corner of the Chicago Children's Museum.

The hometown of Popeye's creator is littered with a growing collection of granite cartoon characters.

This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.

Today this bizarre rooftop phone booth seems like a piece of kitsch but it was once used to spot disastrous storms.

More than 8,000 drinking jugs say “Cheers!” to a guy named Toby.

This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.

Museum dedicated to the art of cutting and polishing stones.

Take a break from all the boring business of death at this funeral home mini-golf course.

Moving, mind-blowing metal sculpture work of an outsider artist.

Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.

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

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

A plaque marks a former safe house on the secret route, now hidden next to a McDonald's.

This botanical garden outside Chicago boasts an array of more than 300 varieties of lilacs.

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.

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

The multinational Burger King chain is banned from operating within 20 miles of a family restaurant filed under the same name.