Places The Backyard Tourist Wants to Go

This supper-club-turned-concert-venue still serves drinks at its original rotating bar.

The world's largest covered wagon is piloted by a giant Lincoln lawyer.

A 30-foot man on a penny-farthing bicycle rides along the banks of the Mississippi.

This monolithic statue was erected in honor of Chief Black Hawk (even if it wasn't made to look like him).

Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.

This abandoned Abraham Lincoln statue has also earned the honorary of "World's Ugliest."

A mythical bird etched into the face of a rock doubles as the mascot for a nearby school.

A goddess-topped water fountain in Chicago was created thanks to the dreams of a thirsty newsboy.

The hometown of Popeye's creator is littered with a growing collection of granite cartoon characters.

The iconic Chicago sculpture hides a beautiful and easily overlooked plaque on the backside.

A plaque marks a former safe house on the secret route, now hidden next to a McDonald's.

The dream home of an iconoclastic renaissance man still stands as a monument to his domestically mundane vision.

Orthodox church partially financed by Tsar Nicolas II.

The history of funerals and funerary customs.

Today this bizarre rooftop phone booth seems like a piece of kitsch but it was once used to spot disastrous storms.

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

Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.

A bloodstain from "the wound of the transverberation of the heart."

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

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

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

Medical museum focused on antique anesthesiology equipment.

First known as the "Sample House," this construction mash-up was meant to be a living catalogue of building styles.

The remains of a Rockefeller's lush Italianate estate hidden in the underbrush on the coast of Lake Michigan.