Places M J Wants to Go

A place to eat for on-the-run agents and espionage enthusiasts.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

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

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

This baseball diamond was home to the Rockford Peaches, a team featured in the hit film "A League of Their Own."

The spaceship-like theater, which is still in use, was one of the most popular exhibits at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

Home to the world's largest refracting telescope and the birthplace of modern astrophysics.

This lakefront cottage was crafted in the 1800s and was once a sanitorium.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

The birthplace of a titan of American cinema.

Behind a modern brick exterior lies the oldest continuously-operating lunch-car diner in the United States.

This tiny historic jail along Route 66 is the perfect fit for exactly one criminal and their partner-in-crime.

This small-town opera house has appeared much more in national culture and history than its charming setting might suggest.

At the largest railway museum in the United States, you can see everything from an early steam engine to a functioning Thomas the Tank Engine.

This softly rounded mansion was built without corners not to avoid evil spirits, but to make them more comfortable.

Tour the luxe "glass cage" that inspired and unnerved the architecture world upon its debut.

Its eclectic exhibits range from the world’s first motorcycle to Luke Skywalker’s Land Speeder.

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

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

This old steel industry company town has a tradition of parking cars on the sidewalk so people can walk in the narrow streets.

A onetime gangsters' hideaway where you can dine on steaks, fine wines, and cigars just like they once did.

World's second largest particle accelerator, where nature reveals its secrets.

This sprawling mini-golf empire is an impressive testament to a disappearing attraction.

Urban explorers embraced America's now demolished first suburban mall, south of Chicago.