Places Jessfrawg Wants to Go

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Four tons of weapons merge together in a memorial against violence.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

A former department store turned into a quirky restaurant.

This monolithic statue was erected in honor of Chief Black Hawk (even if it wasn't made to look like him).

This 4,000-acre restored grassland in northern Illinois is home to a range of native flora and fauna, from clovers to plovers to a herd of bison.

A pair of gargoyles peer into unsuspecting passengers at Denver’s conspiracy-packed airport.

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

Tampa’s most famous native royal comes alive in a duo of arresting bronze statues.

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

The final resting place of one of Chicago’s most iconic drill rappers.

This historic hotel has hosted the likes of Babe Ruth, Jimmy Carter, and the Vanderbilts.

Every Sunday for the last 30 years, this Buddhist temple has hosted a market with food and Thai goods.

Step into the past and experience what life was once like in the Sunshine State.

The world's 2nd or 3rd or 4th busiest seaplane base.

Also known as the Osaka Garden, this garden was originally built in 1893 as part of the World's Columbian Exposition.

Burial mounds of prehistoric Native Americans who lived along the DuPage River.

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

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

Despite their macabre past, these hooks are said to bring good luck to those who touch them.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.