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Places I've been

Places this traveler has marked as been there.

That's a lot of mustard.

Middleton, Wisconsin

National Mustard Museum

More than 5,000 contemporary and "historic" mustards from around the world.

Ayyyyy.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

The Bronze Fonz

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.

6-11-23

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Ladybug Building

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

Mars Cheese Castle

Kenosha, Wisconsin

Mars Cheese Castle

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

Volo Auto Museum

Volo, Illinois

Volo Auto Museum

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

A Tightly-Packed Corridor of Games

Brookfield, Illinois

Galloping Ghost Arcade

What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.

Ghoulish Mortals

St. Charles, Illinois

Ghoulish Mortals

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

McDonald's First Store Museum
Permanently Closed

Des Plaines, Illinois

McDonald's First Store Museum

Despite its name, this fast food museum is actually a replica of the ninth McDonald's store.

Wide shot of the front; around where the students got picked up from detention and said their goodbyes.

Des Plaines, Illinois

Maine North High School

Where a brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel, and a recluse met one Saturday and changed their lives forever.

Lilacia Park

Lombard, Illinois

Lilacia Park

This botanical garden outside Chicago boasts an array of more than 300 varieties of lilacs.

Children play among the old missile equipment.

Addison, Illinois

Nike Park

Cold War missile launch site which has been converted to a public park.