Places bryansimpson Wants to Go

This old-fashioned confectionary has been family owned and operated for more than a century.

Honoring the star of the “The Bob Newhart Show” which took place in the city of Chicago in the 1970s.

A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.

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

This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

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

The first marker along the famous boundary.

This museum is dedicated to a Hollywood icon.

The first and only American institution dedicated to the enduring value of comedy in the United States.

Thousands of migrating monarchs overwinter clustered amongst the eucalyptus trees.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

This impressive working clock made of 16,000 plants changes its flowers twice a year.

Collection of antique science instruments displayed in recreated 1870-1930 laboratories.

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

More than 350 million years ago, western New York was covered in a vast sea. Today, you can dig up the remains of the plants and animals that lived there.

An enchanting tunnel of cypress trees leads to an old morse code station still used today.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.