Places HoboPal Wants to Go

Giant acorn-shaped 19th century gazebo from which suburban Washingtonians gazed upon the original "silver" spring.

Press 1 for knock-knock jokes.

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement served food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

A retrofuturistic art installation in the Pittsburgh Airport.

The first and only museum dedicated to stained glass and horology opened outside of Chicago in 2017.

A student designed this 3D-printed scale replica of the entire university campus.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

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

This sprawling mini-golf empire is an impressive testament to a disappearing attraction.

The site of an ancient Mississippian settlement that appears to have flourished during the 10th to 13th centuries.

According to the legend, this strikingly beautiful hill has miraculous healing powers.

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

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

What appears to be a wizard's lair in Milwaukee actually houses a massive water pipe.

A Milwaukee museum provides an unsparing and ultimately empowering look at the Black American experience.

This quirky museum has a collection of more than 15,000 bobblehead dolls.

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.

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

A circus of light and sound forms a sensory ode to an iconic train that will never pass through town again.

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

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