Places EmptyJay Wants to Go

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

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

Cold War missile launch site which has been converted to a public park.

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

Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.

A hundred-year-old museum filled with giant physics toys and experiments designed by grad students.

More than 5,000 contemporary and "historic" mustards from around the world.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

Legend says Dungeons and Dragons players can get their dice blessed at the creator of the game's memorial.

Behind a modern brick exterior lies the oldest continuously-operating lunch-car diner in the United States.

The birthplace of a titan of American cinema.

The preserved remains of the former Milwaukee County Hospital for the Insane are hidden in the wooded grounds of County Park.

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

The oldest certified bowling alley in the United States is in the basement of this century-old bar.

An off-the-beaten-path place to literally hang beneath Milwaukee's Holton Street Bridge.

Ever wanted to can Spam?

Eternal resting place of the grave robber and murderer who served as inspiration for many of cinema’s famous madmen.

The world's largest talking cow would like to tell you about the benefits of 100% Wisconsin dairy products, if only she still could.