Places amkbrenner Wants to Go

A quaint miniatures museum that turns its focus towards the lives of Americans in a simpler time.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

Housed in the university planetarium, the thousand-strong collection of tiny towelettes includes a used one from the hosts of Car Talk.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

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

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

One of the last functioning antique elevators in Chicago.

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

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

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

First planned industrial community in the United States.

A science teacher's dream.