Places sarakreep Wants to Go

The highest point in Wisconsin is capped by two towers that are not as mythic as Tolkien's but provide much better views.

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

A curious sculpture garden and museum in Cochrane, Wisconsin.

The menacing creature had a tremendous influence on the local culture before being exposed as a hoax.

A circus of light and sound forms a sensory ode to an iconic train that will never pass through town again.

Paranormal activity on the great lakes.

A former department store turned into a quirky restaurant.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

Former hotel turned into haunted playground.

One of two identical monuments marking the sites of military training encampments in Peoria, Illinois.

A collection of 11 million buttons illustrates the human toll of the Holocaust.

Once known as the Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane.

This abandoned 19th century orphanage started as a boarding school for children of Civil War veterans.

Eclectic collection of rare and beautiful stones in a historic home.

The history of funerals and funerary customs.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

You were once able to challenge a chicken to tic-tac-toe at this park, which is now converted into the Aikman Wildlife Adventure.

This small-town park in southern Illinois has a 1,000,000-gallon swimming pool and a 100,000-barrel oil well.

This historic lavatory leftover features two levels of defecation stations completely without context.

One of the first historical sites of an alternative universe was installed in the town of Paris, Illinois—which is now home to an annual spelling bee of Kcymaerxthaereal words.

In a grove of fast growing walnut trees outside Paris, Illinois, a marker shares the story of a fictional road building culture.