Places jimminyslimminy Wants to Go

Homesick Syrian refugees head to this restaurant for a taste of Damascus.

Come for the whole sides of slow-roasted lamb, stay for the regional Kurdish specialties.

This crucial gathering spot along the "hippie trail" still displays old notes between traveling beatniks and backpackers.

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.

This 150 foot seven-tiered cascading waterfall is one of the hidden gems of the White Mountains.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

The largest known open fault in the United States is basically a giant natural refrigerator.

A small cave hidden deep within the Jenny Jump State Forest.

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

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

This small, but long-running hobby club has built one of the largest model rail lines in the US.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

Designed by Alfred Caldwel, this landscape showcases his vision of a native garden.

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

From banquet hall to Masonic Lodge and now concert venue, Ganz Hall is a breathtaking glimpse of into the golden age of American architecture.

Over 1,000 pieces of one of the most niche art objects imaginable: the glass paperweight.

A hidden oasis just north of Chicago's Chinatown.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.