Places Wormfood Wants to Go

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

A remnant of the last Ice Age, this lake is surrounded by fascinating rock formations.

A hidden oasis in the heart of Minneapolis is also an Important Bird Area.

Restaurant in Northern Wisconsin comes with a unique feature: a grassy roof covered in living goats.

Museum with an extensive collection of Cray supercomputers and related artifacts.

One extremely determined man's homemade universe.

"Iron Age" creatures fill this huckster's rusted metal sculpture garden.

This huge stew pot is the focal point of the "Community Soup" event, which honors tradition and soup.

At this Wisconsin museum there are real ducks, fake ducks, duck calls and a Duck Blind.

A museum of the dime museum that features weird entertainments of yesteryear, from feejee mermaids to flea circuses.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

This odd-shaped relic from the 1964 New York World's Fair found its way back home to Wisconsin.

The statue honors the booming birds Rothsay, Minnesota, is famous for.

A riverside park built around the ruins of a massive dam that collapsed in 1909.

Where you can photograph wild black bears without worrying about becoming dinner.

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

This large midwestern cavern features impressive rock formations and an underground waterfall.

The remains of a World War II munitions factory still haunt the fields of this Twin Cities suburb.

A restaurant and lodge in northern Wisconsin which served as a clandestine hideout for John Dillinger and featured one of the most famous botched FBI raids in history.

This water tower has been a staple of the Rochester skyline since 1931.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.