Places makoyumi Wants to Go

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

The overgrown remains of a folly temple/playhouse, in an unmaintained section of a Dupage County Forest Preserve.

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

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

This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.

A small Chicago museum filled with thousands of preserved butterflies, beetles, and more.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

The largest interactive exhibition in the U.S. exploring human history through the lens of power, punishment, and psychology.

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.

It is the location of a string of sightings of a “werewolf” or “wolfman” from the early 1970s to the late ‘90s, now known as the Beast of Bray Road.

A hidden network of subterranean passageways lies tangled beneath Indianapolis' bustling City Market.

Even with only two residents and one building, this tiny Illinois town is famous for its burgers.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.