Places Nicole Lee Wants to Go

A student designed this 3D-printed scale replica of the entire university campus.

In the middle of Calvary Cemetery stands this singular memorial to a small boy who died too young.

The first home and studio that belonged to the famous architect.

Julia Buccola Petta's body was peculiarly well-preserved when it was exhumed six years after her death.

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

The final resting place of two unknown soldiers.

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

This horror movie and monster shop is like if a haunted house was a retail store.

This carved armchair marks the final resting place for two pals in the Chicago suburbs.

This cemetery is all that remains of a school for "wayward" girls.

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.

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

Tucked away amongst townhomes lies a restored, early 20th-century tea house and garden, the only remains of a historic estate.

This simple gravestone remembers a pig who single-hoofedly raised $19,000,000 for the Navy.

A natural sandstone bridge nestled within a mature forest in southern Illinois.

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.

Tucked away in downtown Westerly is America's first shark history museum.

The last living thing to come out of the rubble after 9/11 is now a symbol of hope and resilience.

Creativity is far from extinct in Missouri, and this painted dinosaur is no exception!

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

An unexpected but incredible collection of wildlife dioramas spanning rainforests, swamps, forests, and plains.

A phone booth that combines public art and climate change awareness.