Places Edited by yooperann

This was the first ever National Lakeshore, established in 1966.

The only Chicago bridgehouse open to the public contains a museum devoted to the Chicago River.

This oceanfront 1920s house museum offers visitors historic art and rare plants across five distinct ecosystems.

The last surviving bastion of the Baquet restaurant empire serves up superb soul food.

Miners in Michigan developed a taste for Cornish beef pasties, which this roadside stand has been selling since 1947.

This free sculpture garden is home to over 90 artworks and installations from artists around the world.

The last remaining vestige of a popular 1999 public art display.

A section in the cemetery mostly for circus performers, including victims of the famous 1918 Hammond Circus train wreck.

A disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright built an experimental, partially underground home in the desert.

After an Illinois church was struck by lightning and burned down, Frank Lloyd Wright designed this replacement.

A journey to a hand-crafted island involves a trip across this lattice bridge.

Beautiful scenery, history, science, and physics come together in this remnant of shipping lore.

Colorful, cheeky signs spill out of legendary New Orleans folk artist Dr. Bob's Bywater studio warning you to "Be Nice—Or Leave."

One of the finest examples of a black soil prairie that was barely saved by the Great Depression.

A relic of the Cold War in Chicago.

This fort dates back to 1588 and was colonized by the Portuguese, Dutch, and English and sits prominently on the Indian Ocean where azure water lap the coast.

This 19th-century ghost town offers a stunning view of Lake Michigan and a journey through the region's industrial past.

Behind a modern brick exterior lies the oldest continuously-operating lunch-car diner in the United States.

This lone tree and dramatic sandstone outcropping are so beloved by Michiganders they can be found on one of the state’s coins.

Chicago’s incendiary role in the labor movement.

This historic-shipwreck-cum-diving-spot can still be seen poking its boiler out of the Lake Michigan waters that claimed it.

As its grandiose name implies, this wooden dome is unsurpassed in size.