Places that1uplife Wants to Go

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

This carved armchair marks the final resting place for two pals in the Chicago suburbs.

This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

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

A onetime gangsters' hideaway where you can dine on steaks, fine wines, and cigars just like they once did.

The final resting place of two unknown soldiers.

The oldest purpose built museum in Illinois, home to original Victorian taxidermy.

The final resting place of Gary Gygax; co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons.

Legend says Dungeons and Dragons players can get their dice blessed at the creator of the game's memorial.

A historic ballroom host to famous performers from the big band era to 1980s rock.

An unusual statue in Wisconsin of the first daily comic strip character.

This lakefront cottage was crafted in the 1800s and was once a sanitorium.

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

With 8,000 pipes this giant instrument is the most versatile theatre pipe organ ever built.

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

Volo Bog is the only open-water quaking bog in Illinois, and also the southernmost open-water quaking bog in North America to exhibit all stages of bog succession.

This softly rounded mansion was built without corners not to avoid evil spirits, but to make them more comfortable.

This small-town opera house has appeared much more in national culture and history than its charming setting might suggest.

See where Bill Murray kidnapped a hapless Punxsutawney Phil.

At the largest railway museum in the United States, you can see everything from an early steam engine to a functioning Thomas the Tank Engine.

Tour the luxe "glass cage" that inspired and unnerved the architecture world upon its debut.

This architectural stunner is one of the few surviving Egyptian Revival theaters in the U.S.

A small cemetery chapel designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1906.

This baseball diamond was home to the Rockford Peaches, a team featured in the hit film "A League of Their Own."