Places dmjournalist Wants to Go

A house and yard adorned with bizarre concrete sculptures in a Milwaukee suburb.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

One of the last Depression-era bandshells still standing was the site of Elvis Presley’s first live concert.

Largely unknown designer of the Jefferson nickel, one of the most iconic coins in U.S. history.

The writing studio of an American adventure author, built in the style of a medieval castle.

This unusual three-way wooden foot bridge spans two rivers at once.

Along with his smaller donkey pal, he guards the museum’s exhibits and memorabilia.

A fantastic place to see murals, and an important location in the history of Toronto's legal street art scene.

This unusual structure may be on its way to becoming a cultural landmark in Toronto.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

This bookstore for weird fiction doubles as Providence’s de facto center for information about H.P. Lovecraft.

A work of art that pays homage to a Victorian timepiece in Providence.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

A plaque marks the spot on the bridge where one of the first elephants in the U.S., Little Bet, was gunned down.

Once the largest attraction in Rhode Island, this former amusement park is now a gorgeous coastal state park.

A giant green dragon crawls down from the roof of the Providence Children's Museum.

The vaguely man-shaped root that ate the body of the founder of Rhode Island.

A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.