Places Emily Sue Wants to Go

On the windswept Dakota plains there is a memorial to circus workers who were struck down by lightning.

A riverside park built around the ruins of a massive dam that collapsed in 1909.

This collection of Wild West movie memorabilia also claims to hold some secrets of the Lost Dutchman's mine.

This 40-room dwelling tucked within a cliff was built by the basin's prehistoric residents.

A spiritual sanctuary in a natural cave.

This 15th-century cave complex is one of the very few monasteries to stay open throughout World War II and the Soviet regime.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

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

The world's only known button museum.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

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

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

This bright yellow building is packed with sweet treats from all around the world, from chocolate-covered crickets to whoopie pies.

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

Located in a beautifully restored ice house, this museum is the result of decades of hard work and devotion to the craft of plumbing.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.