Places swarmsoflizards Wants to Go

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

Also known as the Osaka Garden, this garden was originally built in 1893 as part of the World's Columbian Exposition.

This historic house museum that celebrates one of the world's most influential social reformers is also one of the most haunted locations in Chicago.

A small Chicago museum filled with thousands of preserved butterflies, beetles, and more.

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

Dakota legend claims this locally iconic pinnacle was once part of a sacred burial site that was cleaved in two.

14th century Norse artifacts in Northwestern Minnesota could have proved a Viking landing before Columbus.

A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.

Where one of America's greatest songwriters lived before he was Bob Dylan.

Its collection contains relics from the devastating disaster that set the town ablaze.

Home to part of the world’s largest private collection of original manuscripts and documents.

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

This replica of an 8th century burial ship actually sailed to Norway before returning home to Minnesota.

Come for the giant taxidermy lion, stay for the knick knacks at this Minneapolis curiosity shop.

An eatery within the Minneapolis American Indian Center writes colonial ingredients out of the story of Native American cuisine.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

This record shop and unofficial black metal museum is an ode to Oslo's heaviest musical export.

A microbiologist-chef is slinging noodles with hyperlocal Nordic ingredients.

The world's largest moose statue towers above the highway between Oslo and Trondheim.

One of the most breathtaking railways in Europe also takes one of the steepest climbs, from fjord to mountain plateau.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.