jen487's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

jen487

Full-time RVer travelling the country and exploring weird places. I blog about our adventures on roamingnelsons.com

https://roamingnelsons.com/

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Carbondale, Illinois

Buckminster Fuller Dome Home

The only dome home to be owned or occupied by dome inventor Buckminster Fuller.

Added by codell76

Chester, Illinois

Popeye Museum and Spinach Can Collectibles

A museum and gift shop in a small Illinois town commemorates the work of E.C. Segar and the local figures on whom he based his characters.

Added by traceywilson

Rockford, Illinois

Anderson Japanese Gardens

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

Added by ViolaHD

Wilmington, Illinois

Joliet Army Ammunition Plant

This national park dedicated to the tallgrass prairie ecosystem still displays its military past.

AFish

Peoria, Illinois

Camp Peoria Civil War Marker

One of two identical monuments marking the sites of military training encampments in Peoria, Illinois.

Added by smfishel

Philip, South Dakota

Minuteman Missile Visitor Center

Dedicated to the history of the 1,000 nuclear missiles that once covered the Great Plains.

Jemez Springs, New Mexico

Jemez Springs Library Human Sundial

This sundial indicates the time based on where you stand within it.

rickbbiking

Added by rickbbiking

Colfax, Washington

St. Ignatius Hospital

An abandoned 19th-century hospital now swirling in ghost stories.

cyanidesiren

Added by cyanidesiren

Joliet, Illinois

Joliet Correctional Center

A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.

TravelGal

Added by TravelGal

Geneva, Illinois

Fabyan Villa Museum

This house renovated by Frank Lloyd Wright was the centerpiece of a lavish 20th-century estate.

Spacekittycat

Added by Spacekittycat

Roscoe, Illinois

Historic Auto Attractions

This deceivingly ordinary warehouse hides an enormous collection of pop culture treasures.

Montse writes with ink and light

Added by Montse writes with ink and light

Geneva, Illinois

Sacred Heart Seminary Shrine

A hidden grotto on the grounds of the Kane County Government Center.

erinndoran

Added by erinndoran

Stoneville, Newfoundland and Labrador

Beothuk Interpretation Centre

The last remains of the extinct Beothuk people native to the island of Newfoundland.

mariellen

Added by mariellen

Barrington, Illinois

Place de la Musique

With 8,000 pipes this giant instrument is the most versatile theatre pipe organ ever built.

Josh

Cairo, Illinois

Fort Defiance Park

The lowest point in the state of Illinois, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.

Freeport, Illinois

Silver Creek and Stephenson Railroad

The only place in America where anyone who wants can shovel coal aboard an antique train.

arc459

Added by arc459

Cairo, Illinois

Abandoned Town of Cairo, Illinois

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

Plano, Illinois

The Farnsworth House

Tour the luxe "glass cage" that inspired and unnerved the architecture world upon its debut.

Deuce

Joliet, Illinois

Joliet Iron and Steel Works (Joliet Iron Works Park)

What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Chester, Illinois

Popeye Character Trail

The hometown of Popeye's creator is littered with a growing collection of granite cartoon characters.

Added by thescousewife

Wilmington, Illinois

Gemini Giant

This historic Illinois "Muffler Man" has been converted from axe-touting lumberjack to rocket-wielding space ace.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Geneva, Illinois

The Viking

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Batavia, Illinois

Fabyan Windmill

Arguably the best example of an authentic Dutch windmill in the United States, rivaling its counterparts in the Netherlands.

Collin

Added by Collin

Spring Green, Wisconsin

House on the Rock

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

Dylan