Places EFS Wants to Go

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

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 baseball diamond was home to the Rockford Peaches, a team featured in the hit film "A League of Their Own."

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

A science teacher's dream.

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

The legacy of baseball great Roberto Clemente is preserved in a retired Pittsburgh fire station.

This Pennsylvania cave holds evidence of the oldest known inhabitants of North America.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

Three playfully immersive mini golf courses let you travel alongside your ball to the cup at this facility, which has been around since the 1950s.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

The steepest classic funicular in the world glides along a dizzying incline.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.

The Quapaw tribe supplies the meat and produce in this Oklahoma casino restaurant.

A retro walk through the history of the tube.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”