Places Annaml Wants to Go

One of the few working locomotive roundhouses in the United States.

The original vault that held the president's remains still stands, empty, not far from where he was finally buried.

This diner serves Route 66 nostalgia and what it claims is the 'original' hot dog on a stick.

A 30-foot-tall goat tower in central Illinois is home to a herd of Swiss ungulates.

A collection of soda memorabilia that spans decades.

A taxidermy “mermaid,” vampire-killing kits, and hundreds of other bizarre objects are housed at this quirky museum.

During the 19th-century, this park was a vital trading fort.

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

Odd castle-like structures for collecting water sticking out of the Mississippi River.

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

A commemoration of over 150 of St. Louis's favorite sons and daughters.

This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.

One of the last remaining French Colonial style churches, this centuries-old building was constructed using upright logs and no nails.

The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.

Explore more than 175 years of saxophone history.

This spot in St. Louis, marked with a simple sign, has seen more pro baseball than just about anywhere else in the world.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

A cabinet of funerary art and death culture hidden inside an oddities shop.

A small cemetery chapel designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1906.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

A wondrously macabre treasury of obscure antiques and unusual oddities.

This 4,000-acre restored grassland in northern Illinois is home to a range of native flora and fauna, from clovers to plovers to a herd of bison.

Decades of pinball and arcade classics line this South Florida outpost of a popular Northeast arcade.

Just off I-55 in McLean, Illinois, is a place where you can play over 100 arcade and pinball machines for 25-75 cents a pop.