Places asdonkar Wants to Go

This Las Vegas casino boasts one of only three spiral escalators in the United States—an engineering wonder.

A caravanserai turned into a museum showcasing the mastery of local carpenters.

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

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

The 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.

The statue, located at a mansion-turned-emancipation museum, honors Galveston’s history as the birthplace of Juneteenth.

Bronze sculpture paying homage to Norma “Duffy” Lyon, famous for creating a life-size cow made of butter at the state fair.

This bird statue was created to mark the site of a radio transmitter.

The oldest functioning restaurant in the state of Illinois, operating since 1847.

This little barrel-shaped cottage by Lake Superior was once a cartoonist's summer retreat.

Winter weather reveals a large Italian marble crucifix drowned beneath Lake Michigan.

During WWII the U.S. Navy conducted primitive drone strikes on this Lake Michigan lighthouse.

Easily overlooked in favor of the wineries that dot the region, this blast from the past is equally worth the visit.

An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.

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

World's largest Christmas store.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

Concrete igloos standing across from what remains of the Michigan Central train depot.

The Kalamazoo factory has 100 years of instrument-making, and one big wartime secret.

A charming remnant of 19th-century fishing towns sits on Michigan’s Leelanau Peninsula.

Taxidermy and miniatures come together to create this unique museum.