Places brianajreidy Wants to Go

This botanical garden outside Chicago boasts an array of more than 300 varieties of lilacs.

Eclectic collection of rare and beautiful stones in a historic home.

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

This folk art wall claims to be the world's one and only memorial to the bygone age of hippies.

The park is home to the United States's only still-operating Dutch windmill.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

Giant six-pack could provide one person a six-pack a day for 3,351 years.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

An iconic location along the Los Angeles River where countless movie scenes are filmed.

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

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

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.

The most unloved grain elevator in Brooklyn was a “Magnificent Mistake.”

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.