Places biancac Wants to Go

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.

A beloved Chicago music venue offering cold beer and lots of “Friendly."

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

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

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

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

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

Where old school Polish Chicago and young hipster Chicago live side by side.

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

One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

A macabre farm reserved part of its 222-acres for dead bodies, all in the name of science.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

This colorful theme park dedicated the official fruit of Maine serves sweet, tasty treats.

An 18th-century home taken over by antique automatons and musical machines (Closed).

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

The first "applecore" style lighthouse in Nova Scotia.

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

The vaguely man-shaped root that ate the body of the founder of Rhode Island.

Turns out you can see the world without ever leaving Maine.

A decidedly out of place statue memorializes the Blues Brothers characters at this water bottling plant.