Places Edited by jen487

These five houses were built for the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair.

Sip whiskey in a powerhouse that once belonged to a storied hydroelectric dam.

The oldest purpose built museum in Illinois, home to original Victorian taxidermy.

This coastal rock formation resembles a churning cauldron at high tide.

The only dome home to be owned or occupied by dome inventor Buckminster Fuller.

A museum and gift shop in a small Illinois town commemorates the work of E.C. Segar and the local figures on whom he based his characters.

This historic pink parlor keeps Phoenicians cool with homemade, retro ice creams.

Rusted and decayed, this former mining site is a portal to the past.

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

This national park dedicated to the tallgrass prairie ecosystem still displays its military past.

One of two identical monuments marking the sites of military training encampments in Peoria, Illinois.

Dedicated to the history of the 1,000 nuclear missiles that once covered the Great Plains.

This sundial indicates the time based on where you stand within it.

An abandoned 19th-century hospital now swirling in ghost stories.

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

This house renovated by Frank Lloyd Wright was the centerpiece of a lavish 20th-century estate.

This deceivingly ordinary warehouse hides an enormous collection of pop culture treasures.

A hidden grotto on the grounds of the Kane County Government Center.

The last remains of the extinct Beothuk people native to the island of Newfoundland.

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

An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.

The lowest point in the state of Illinois, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.

The only place in America where anyone who wants can shovel coal aboard an antique train.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.