Places maxvaughn Wants to Go

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

What appears to be a wizard's lair in Milwaukee actually houses a massive water pipe.

These characters from a Robert Louis Stevenson novel stand in an unlikely place.

Meet the "Green Monster" of Monico, Wisconsin.

The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.

The final resting place of one of Thomas Jefferson's formerly enslaved sons.

A bronze plaque marks the site of the only show the "King of the Soul Singers" ever missed.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

This solitary gravestone is separated from the rest in Appleton, explaining why local legends continue to surround it.

The menacing creature had a tremendous influence on the local culture before being exposed as a hoax.

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

An off-the-beaten-path place to literally hang beneath Milwaukee's Holton Street Bridge.

Literally a million fascinating cartographic artifacts are held in this sprawling university collection.