Places Ckorear512 Wants to Go

In the loving memory of a tragically deceased role-player this Illinois park is decked out with both dungeons and dragons.

A remnant of the last Ice Age, this lake is surrounded by fascinating rock formations.

This abandoned Abraham Lincoln statue has also earned the honorary of "World's Ugliest."

Taxidermy, Cigar Store Indians, A Model of a New York Tenement and Delicious Draft Root Beer.

Even with its slightly risible name this colossal cross is still able to inspire awe.

This historic Illinois "Muffler Man" has been converted from axe-touting lumberjack to rocket-wielding space ace.

Prayers and messages of hope decorate the ceramic tiles of this pavilion.

Prolific outsider artist Sid Boyum's concrete sculptures add whimsy to Madison's Schenk-Atwood neighborhood.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

A town honors its legacy of traditional American Indian pipe carving with one gigantic pipe.

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

A bronze plaque marks the site of the only show the "King of the Soul Singers" ever missed.

Housed inside a former munitions plant that was once one of the largest in the country.

Small-town museum dedicated to outer space ... and bicycles.

Farms are serving pizza made from their own fresh crops, a growing trend in the American Midwest.

Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

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

Moving, mind-blowing metal sculpture work of an outsider artist.

This forgotten beach house built to look like a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece overlooks a hidden beach.

This secret gem of a toy store houses a rideable carousel populated with fantasy animals.

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

Where experiments are conducted on all things wood.

The final resting place of one of Thomas Jefferson's formerly enslaved sons.