Places deniseprickett Wants to Go

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

An old pay phone rewired to play local bird calls and songs at the press of a button.

The headquarters of the Audubon Naturalist Society is a small slice of heaven for nature lovers.

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.

A hidden grotto on the grounds of the Kane County Government Center.

At the largest railway museum in the United States, you can see everything from an early steam engine to a functioning Thomas the Tank Engine.

This architectural stunner is one of the few surviving Egyptian Revival theaters in the U.S.

A small cemetery chapel designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1906.

Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

These enormous, stern-faced statues greet visitors with lanterns, and sometimes costumes.

The door to the museum holds a unique artifact from the Finnish Civil War.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

A lovingly curated curio shop in which the taxidermy wear newspaper party hats, and peanut shells are spread across every surface.

Finland's oldest astronomical observatory once played a crucial role in seafaring and timekeeping.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

A small island dotted with old, historic Finnish buildings.

These lakeside pictographs were some of the first pieces of prehistoric artwork found in Finland.

Crawling into this primordial cave may feel disconcertingly familiar.

The last permanent exhibit dedicated to the Soviet leader.

The church's remarkable frescoes incorporate Finnish artist Hugh Simberg's trademark themes of death and the supernatural.

This intricately spiralling forest was created as a monumental work of art.

The inscribed stone at Kilnasaggart is a remnant from nearly a millennium ago.