Places Jessfrawg Wants to Go

This library and museum is dedicated to the life and literature of the Indianapolis native author.

At the top of the hour, this steam-powered clock's eight brass whistles play "Back Home Again in Indiana."

This stately clubhouse has showcased German-American culture for over a century.

A hidden network of subterranean passageways lies tangled beneath Indianapolis' bustling City Market.

A 30-year-old Sycamore tree grown from a seed taken to the moon and back.

This unique zoo is the only place in the world where you can see all 15 species of crane.

The remains of a enormous earthen figure of unknown origins cuts across a rural Wisconsin road.

A remnant of the last Ice Age, this lake is surrounded by fascinating rock formations.

At this Wisconsin museum there are real ducks, fake ducks, duck calls and a Duck Blind.

A large circus museum with summer performances.

This circus town museum recognizes the outstanding clowns of history.

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

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's final works was this UFO church.

Complex aquaponics systems allow fish and plants to grow in harmony.

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

This rooftop sign has been confusing Milwaukee-bound airline passengers for decades.

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

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

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

This storied music venue was once a tavern that housed an Italian Anarchist book club and prohibition parties; today it's a community space for artists and musicians.

A trailblazing sovereign nation tucked in the American state of Wisconsin.

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

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

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