Places leeann365 Wants to Go

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

This small-town park in southern Illinois has a 1,000,000-gallon swimming pool and a 100,000-barrel oil well.

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

A geological oddity formed by two rivers carving out a mass of limestone on both sides.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

Built following the War of 1812, this fort has withstood hurricanes for centuries.

This cave was hidden for thousands of years, storing the worldly goods of ancient Native Americans.

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

This botanical garden outside Chicago boasts an array of more than 300 varieties of lilacs.

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

A humble homemade ride attracts visitors from around the globe to this small Midwestern town.

The only building in Louisville (hopefully) that contains two ancient holy skeletons.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

This neo-Gothic former auto showroom is one of the few remaining reminders of Brooklyn's "Automobile Row."

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.