Places jrhspam Wants to Go

Roses and other fascinating flora fill this garden built to commemorate Britain's immortal Bard.

The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

A sprawling outdoor museum filled with larger-than-life works of art.

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

The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.

A turn-of-the-century architectural marvel built on healing mineral springs and salt licks.

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

This former Union fort commands a fine view of downtown Cape Girardeau and the Mississippi River.

A flat slab of stone perched hundreds of feet above the Gasconade River in the northern Ozark mountains.

A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.

During the 19th-century, this park was a vital trading fort.

A sculpture of a giant man escaping from the depths of the Earth.

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

Now nearly abandoned, Kaskaskia was once the capital of Illinois and one of the most important towns on the upper Mississippi.

Tucked away on a scenic trail, a modest memorial honors one of the greatest writers of our time.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

Inside houses a vast collection of military aircraft and missiles spanning the ages.

A bronze of the man in all his sinewy glory celebrates his longtime connection to the Ohio city.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.