World's Largest Ball of Twine Museum
Minnesota
Located beside the big twine ball, the museum tells its backstory and has a fun gift shop.
Must-see attractions in The Great Lakes
Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village
On the 3rd floor of this apartment building writer Nelson Algren created some of his greatest works about life in the once down-and-out neighborhood. A…
St Valentine's Day Massacre Site
Chicago
At this infamous spot on February 14, 1929, Al Capone's henchmen, dressed as cops, lined up seven members of Bugs Moran's gang against the garage wall…
Red Wing
This museum, above a Red Wing shoe store downtown, is dedicated to the history of the iconic shoe brand that both got its start here and bears the city's…
Chicago
You can visit Barack Obama’s barber Zariff and the bulletproof-glass-encased presidential barber chair at the Hyde Park Hair Salon. Staff don't mind if…
Wisconsin
The 'cans' are actually storage tanks for City Brewery and hold enough beer to provide one person with a six-pack a day for 3351 years (or so the sign…
Chicago
Gospel fans can make the pilgrimage to the Greater Salem Baptist Church where gospel great Mahalia Jackson was a lifelong member.
