Places Tiffany Funk Wants to Go

An enormous natural sandstone bridge in Kentucky.

Thousands of unique minerals, including some of the most impressive fluorite crystals in the world.

This open air cathedral invites all faiths to worship under the only roof big enough to fit them all: the sky.

The world's only known button museum.

Five restored historic road bridges in a park along the Kalamazoo River.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

See prehistoric footprints, plus two complete mastodon skeletons.

For books about travel, whether factual or fictional, the perfect antiquarian does exist.

This elaborately-carved white marble fountain was built to stand outside the Detroit Opera House.

Literally a million fascinating cartographic artifacts are held in this sprawling university collection.

The final resting place of Gary Gygax; co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons.

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

Exhibits from an island in Lake Michigan are preserved in this hand-built cabin museum.

The oldest continuously-operating tavern in Wisconsin used a clever loophole to serve alcohol during Prohibition.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

This 19th-century ghost town offers a stunning view of Lake Michigan and a journey through the region's industrial past.

World's largest pet casket company brings in up to $5 million per year in revenue.

Large one-man sculpture park in Michigan.

With 8,000 pipes this giant instrument is the most versatile theatre pipe organ ever built.

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

This botanical garden outside Chicago boasts an array of more than 300 varieties of lilacs.

A former atom smasher turned into an art gallery.

Museum dedicated to the art of cutting and polishing stones.

View Kentucky's beauty and history from the perspective of painter John James Audubon, author and illustrator.