Places Vic Tanner Wants to Go

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

This encrypted monolith protected a secret of Norse mythology by hiding in a church wall for over a millennium.

A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.

See how Laura Ingalls lived on the Minnesota prairie.

The last original miniature duckpin bowling lanes in America, located in a Milwaukee dive bar.

Explore a real 19th-century lead and zinc mine at this immersive series of exhibits.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

To truly appreciate Detroit's landmark skyscraper, you have to step inside.

A museum dedicated to the dead and the tools used to usher them into the afterlife.

A roadside statue store in rural Minnesota with quirky displays.

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.

Inside the Wayne County airport is an amazing collection of lights and sounds.

It leads to a former hospital’s old root cellar.

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

A quaint miniatures museum that turns its focus towards the lives of Americans in a simpler time.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

Located in a Civil War era building, this café is engrained with the spirit of Edgar Allen Poe.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

The remains of a religious colony, its amusement park, zoo, and baseball empire.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

Strange physical sensations and optical contradictions keep visitors coming back for more.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

Largest magic museum in the United States with more than half a million pieces of memorabilia.