Places mattduesing Wants to Go

Walk along the intricate path of this stone labyrinth and gardens.

See where Bill Murray kidnapped a hapless Punxsutawney Phil.

A wondrously macabre treasury of obscure antiques and unusual oddities.

This unassuming city park is home to three different types of Native American mounds.

The house is an iconic pilgrimage site for fans of the Illinois-based emo band.

This historic store hides a museum exhibiting a shoe-sizing x-ray machine and a pair of kicks that once belonged to the world's tallest man.

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

An Art Deco gem that held together the artistic heart of an agricultural community for 92 years.

Twice a year, this road is closed off to allow for the migration of thousands of snakes, reptiles and amphibians between cliffs and a swamp.

This odd stone memorial remembers a loyal dog who offended the rail barons with his speed and saved his master with his pee.

The park that the Chicago Stockyards built.

The study has wall paneling from a 17th century ship.

One of the largest carillons in the world, this giant instrument has 67 cast-iron bells played by a keyboard.

With 8,000 pipes this giant instrument is the most versatile theatre pipe organ ever built.

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 former nursery supplied plants for the creation of Chicago's largest park.

Built in 1869, this now-retired structure looks more like a medieval fortress than a county lock-up.

A former atom smasher turned into an art gallery.

This national park dedicated to the tallgrass prairie ecosystem still displays its military past.

Though it's thrived abroad, this forgotten Dunkin' rival has just one store left in the States.

This Mediterranean castle was built for a millionaire and his giant dog.

The dream home of an iconoclastic renaissance man still stands as a monument to his domestically mundane vision.

This historic lavatory leftover features two levels of defecation stations completely without context.

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