Places NatashaM Wants to Go

A large collection of motorbikes with some impressive gems.

The remains of a religious colony, its amusement park, zoo, and baseball empire.

One of the world’s largest living advertisements is made out of pine trees.

This museum remembers an apocalyptic cult that became more famous for baseball than religious radicalism.

Home to the world's largest refracting telescope and the birthplace of modern astrophysics.

This tiny historic jail along Route 66 is the perfect fit for exactly one criminal and their partner-in-crime.

The spaceship-like theater, which is still in use, was one of the most popular exhibits at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

The Bong-area park police have asked visitors to please, stop stealing the signs.

Moving, mind-blowing metal sculpture work of an outsider artist.

The birthplace of a titan of American cinema.

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

Tour the luxe "glass cage" that inspired and unnerved the architecture world upon its debut.

This historic Illinois "Muffler Man" has been converted from axe-touting lumberjack to rocket-wielding space ace.

A six-story-tall golden pyramid, surrounded by a moat.

A river with some unusual, and occasionally dangerous, habits.

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

A onetime gangsters' hideaway where you can dine on steaks, fine wines, and cigars just like they once did.

This house renovated by Frank Lloyd Wright was the centerpiece of a lavish 20th-century estate.

An exhibit of items from the mental institution where Mary Todd Lincoln lived after her son conspired to have her committed.

A hidden grotto on the grounds of the Kane County Government Center.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

World's second largest particle accelerator, where nature reveals its secrets.

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

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