Places myejes59 Wants to Go

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

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

The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.

This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

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

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

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

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

The only thing better than tubing down New Jersey's scenic Delaware River is doing so while eating a hot dog from a giant floating stand.

Step into Monet's world at this fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a New Jersey sculpture park.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

The oldest cemetery in Belgium.

This shop filled with oddities and knick-knacks is named for a 19th-century charlatan.

It may appear to be a fancy junk yard, but each item has a story to tell and a lesson to impart.

The Master of Magnetism dominates the walls of a scrap metal yard to keep graffiti artists at bay.

This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.