Places M J Wants to Go

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

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

The final resting place of up to 6,000 Confederate soldiers, the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.

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

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

This monument owes its name to a quote by the famous civil rights activist and journalist.

A strange rock in Chicago marks the spot where a tree once stood in honor of the 18th President.

Chicago’s incendiary role in the labor movement.

One of the few remaining relics of the meatpacking hub that made Chicago the "hog butcher to the world."

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

Pumpkin-like gargoyles and grotesques peer down from the rooftop of this unassuming apartment building in Illinois.

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

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

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

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.

Three gardens with toilets and urinals filled with bright flowers started as a protest against zoning rules.

The remains of a Rockefeller's lush Italianate estate hidden in the underbrush on the coast of Lake Michigan.