Places toniamonkey Wants to Go

The bespectacled, cocktail-sipping pachyderm is a strange but fitting liquor store mascot.

The farm where one of America's greatest leaders was raised is now a well-appointed landmark.

The first artificial white water river course in North America cuts right through an Indiana city.

You thought Santa Claus didn't exist, but it turns out you were wrong.

A flamboyantly decorated bridge signals diversity and fellowship at the entry to Indianapolis' Broad Ripple Village.

A humble homemade ride attracts visitors from around the globe to this small Midwestern town.

This unassuming home was once “grand central station” for the Underground Railroad.

Covered in tens of thousands of coats of paint, this Indiana attraction holds a world record all its own.

The home used in just a few seconds of film that came to define the setting of a hit sitcom.

This open air cathedral invites all faiths to worship under the only roof big enough to fit them all: the sky.

This elaborate estate contains a stunning marble aviary, a sunken conservatory, and a magnificent music room with a two-story pipe organ.

This hidden stream beneath Indianapolis makes an appearance in the best-selling novel "Underground Airlines."

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

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

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

Hot Doug's "Hot Dog" Stand.

Medical museum focused on antique anesthesiology equipment.

The history of funerals and funerary customs.

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

Once known as the Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane.

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

In one Chicago park, a trio of werewolves are waiting to devour their fallen brethren.

Partially submerged Buddha heads freckle Chicago’s neighborhoods.

Pumpkin-like gargoyles and grotesques peer down from the rooftop of this unassuming apartment building in Illinois.