Places averagejoe25 Wants to Go

This award-winning men's bathroom was just too beautiful to not allow women to see.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

A military museum and library dedicated to the citizen soldier.

Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.

Over 1,000 pieces of one of the most niche art objects imaginable: the glass paperweight.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

A museum dedicated to the history & joys of the trail & your best chance to see hikers throwing up ice cream.

A local prank turned town icon.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.