Places collincousineau Wants to Go

A rural hall of justice holds the world's only comic book and superhero museum.

This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.

A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.

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

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

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

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

This tiny historic jail along Route 66 is the perfect fit for exactly one criminal and their partner-in-crime.

This abstract sculpture is rumored to cast a hammer-and-sickle shadow once a year.

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

A six-story-tall golden pyramid, surrounded by a moat.

This sprawling mini-golf empire is an impressive testament to a disappearing attraction.

Take a break from all the boring business of death at this funeral home mini-golf course.

A onetime gangsters' hideaway where you can dine on steaks, fine wines, and cigars just like they once did.

Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

More than 8,000 drinking jugs say “Cheers!” to a guy named Toby.

Pizza with a side of fine art.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.