Places bjcrenshaw Wants to Go

A largely forgotten and touching neoclassical marble fountain overlooking a bear mound effigy.

Hidden away in the city of Madison, Wisconsin is a nearly forgotten home that Frank Lloyd Wright built for a childhood friend.

A house and yard adorned with bizarre concrete sculptures in a Milwaukee suburb.

Literally a million fascinating cartographic artifacts are held in this sprawling university collection.

What appears to be a wizard's lair in Milwaukee actually houses a massive water pipe.

Complex aquaponics systems allow fish and plants to grow in harmony.

An off-the-beaten-path place to literally hang beneath Milwaukee's Holton Street Bridge.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

A factory in Milwaukee where poop is reclaimed… and recycled.

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

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

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

Home to the world's largest refracting telescope and the birthplace of modern astrophysics.

Arguably the best example of an authentic Dutch windmill in the United States, rivaling its counterparts in the Netherlands.

Medical museum focused on antique anesthesiology equipment.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

A hundred-year-old museum filled with giant physics toys and experiments designed by grad students.

Grand opera on a miniature scale.

Cold War missile launch site which has been converted to a public park.

A plaque marks a former safe house on the secret route, now hidden next to a McDonald's.

People escaping slavery passed through the oldest house in Lombard, Illinois on their northbound journey to freedom.