Places Nox Wants to Go

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

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

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.

The largest land animal skull ever discovered.

A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.

Millions of dollars worth of sculpture decorate this Iowa city center.

Journey through the largest remaining peat bogs in the contiguous United States to see the wilderness as it once was.

The pharmacy's retro ice cream mixer is one of the last of its kind.

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.

A sculpture of a giant man escaping from the depths of the Earth.

Direct, creative challenge to Mother Nature's winter wrath.

The park that the Chicago Stockyards built.

A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

An unusual assortment of art, furniture, and other curiosities.

A museum dedicated to the exploring past, present, and future innovations.

Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.

The remains of a World War II munitions factory still haunt the fields of this Twin Cities suburb.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

Grand opera on a miniature scale.

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

The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.

A stunning, abandoned limestone quarry in southern Indiana provided the stone to erect the Empire State Building.