Places snailhugs Wants to Go

This lagomorph-obsessed Route 66 emporium is home to a giant jackrabbit that sits in a bunny graveyard.

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

What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.

A small abandoned and abused cemetery that has become a magnet for ghost hunters.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

This modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.

An unassuming store hides relics of its former life as the jazz club that hosted some of the best black performers of the 1920s and '30s.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

This historic store hides a museum exhibiting a shoe-sizing x-ray machine and a pair of kicks that once belonged to the world's tallest man.

Medical museum focused on antique anesthesiology equipment.

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

Museum dedicated to the art of cutting and polishing stones.

This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

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

Once known as the Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

Largest display of Wesleyana anywhere in the world.