Places lunarassault Wants to Go

A diverse, expansive nature preserve in northeastern Kansas.

A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.

Why settle for barbecue chips when you can get actual barbecue?

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

During the 1990's nearly all of the world's LSD is thought to have come from the operators of the lab once located in this missile silo.

Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.

These elevated trucks were put in place as a middle finger to The Man, but are now considered folk art.

A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.

After an Illinois church was struck by lightning and burned down, Frank Lloyd Wright designed this replacement.

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.

The first home and studio that belonged to the famous architect.

Take a trip back in time at this retro cinema dating back to 1954.

Just outside Chicago, one of the few traditional Mongolian restaurants in the U.S. serves a misunderstood cuisine.

One of the finest examples of a black soil prairie that was barely saved by the Great Depression.

This diner serves Route 66 nostalgia and what it claims is the 'original' hot dog on a stick.

In a historic steel foundry east of the Mississippi River, thousands of wooden crates hold the architectural remnants of buildings long gone but not forgotten.

A 30-foot-tall goat tower in central Illinois is home to a herd of Swiss ungulates.

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

The park that the Chicago Stockyards built.

A wondrously macabre treasury of obscure antiques and unusual oddities.

The only place in America where anyone who wants can shovel coal aboard an antique train.

A massive bur oak tree believed to be some 500 years old is the centerpiece of this quiet urban greenspace.

Tucked away amongst townhomes lies a restored, early 20th-century tea house and garden, the only remains of a historic estate.