Places croxrd13 Wants to Go

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

This modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.

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

An actual 1957 Cadillac De Ville, encased in 15 cubic yards of concrete.

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

The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

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

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

A spectacular remnant of an Adler and Sullivan masterpiece that was destroyed in 1972.

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.

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

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

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

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

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

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

A curious collection of miniatures in a quiet corner of the Chicago Children's Museum.

The murals have transformed a residential alley into a vibrant drive-through gallery.

A crumbling mountain resort that looks like it was abandoned in an instant.

Talula the swan has been welcoming visitors to Elk Rapids, Michigan, for more than four decades.

The structure has welcomed visitors to this scenic harbor city on Lake Michigan for many decades.

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.