Places wsgeridr Wants to Go

This botanical garden outside Chicago boasts an array of more than 300 varieties of lilacs.

People escaping slavery passed through the oldest house in Lombard, Illinois on their northbound journey to freedom.

Explore an underground labyrinth of miniature railroads.

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

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

In a cemetery full of holy men, mobsters, and haunted graves, among the most remarkable graves an ordinary husband and wife's spinning headstone.

The overgrown remains of a folly temple/playhouse, in an unmaintained section of a Dupage County Forest Preserve.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

The oldest brick house in the state of Ohio.

Hidden on two floors of downtown building, the library has an incredible deal on rent.

Mussolini gave Cincinnati a bronze statue of Romulus and Remus suckling at a wolf's teats.

This magnificent Cincinnati graveyard is also a popular public park.

This collection of Japanese luck idols beckons visitors with over 2,000 waving paws.

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage tiles.

A tea party concludes each visit to this Russian spice cookie sanctum.

At this Oaxaca contest, artists turn purple produce into stunning depictions of saints, buildings, and La Pietà.