Places ashleymlawrence Wants to Go

Tirelessly maintained by a Wisconsin man named JFK.

This quirky museum has a collection of more than 15,000 bobblehead dolls.

Restaurant in Northern Wisconsin comes with a unique feature: a grassy roof covered in living goats.

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

Weighing 30,000 pounds, this monument represents Detroit's first industrial era.

Location of the “Greatest 45 Minutes in Sports History.”

This nearly 200-foot tall limestone stack offers visitors amazing views and a chance to meet Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox.

The renowned author spent 22 summers of his early life along the shore of Walloon Lake.

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

Line up for ample portions of freshly caught whitefish, walleye, and perch from the Great Lakes.

The final resting place of the visionary founders of Kelloggs, a global leader in breakfast cereals.

Ernest Hemingway used to frequent this general store, which appears in several of his short stories.

This marker tells the story of a town’s toxic past.

Classic burger joint that’s been serving up sliders since 1952.

A massive portrait of Abraham Lincoln created with approximately 24,500 pennies.

Miners in Michigan developed a taste for Cornish beef pasties, which this roadside stand has been selling since 1947.

For books about travel, whether factual or fictional, the perfect antiquarian does exist.

The world champion cow is buried within a historic old asylum.

On a remote island in the northern reaches of Lake Michigan, a museum of collectibles collides with a vintage toy store.

One of the few Cold War-era bases with many of its original structures still standing.

Perched atop a brick smokestack, this enormous lug nut symbolizes the local minor league baseball team.

The origin of the Nixon tapes is rooted in technological incompetence as much as secrecy.

This enormous fish commemorates the unplanned release of brown trout into a Michigan river.