The Garden of the Gods in Elizabethtown, Illinois, in the heart of the Shawnee National […]
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The Green Bay-Area State Park That Serious Hikers and Kayakers Keep to Themselves
Potawatomi State Park in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin sits at the base of the Door Peninsula […]
The Untouched Minnesota Wilderness That Feels Like It’s Straight Out of a Jack London Novel
Voyageurs National Park in northern Minnesota, along the Canadian border east of International Falls, is […]
One of the Oldest and Most Beloved Zoos in America Is Hiding in Plain Sight in the Midwest
The Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden in Cincinnati, Ohio is one of the oldest and […]
The World-Class Art Museum Hiding Inside One of Detroit’s Most Underrated Cities
The Detroit Institute of Arts in Detroit, Michigan is one of the finest art museums […]
This Southern Indiana Theme Park Gives Away Free Drinks All Day and Still Gets Ranked in America’s Top 10
In the small town of Santa Claus in southern Indiana, a family-owned theme park with […]
A City of 20,000 People Thrived Here 1,000 Years Ago. Almost Nobody in Illinois Knows It Existed.
Across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, in the floodplain of southwestern Illinois, the remains […]
The NFL Stadium Owned by the Community, Where the Waiting List for Season Tickets Is Multiple Generations Long
In the small city of Green Bay, Wisconsin, a stadium that has been the home […]
The Duluth Waterfront Trail Where Giant Freighters Pass Close Enough to Read the Names on Their Hulls
Where Minnesota’s Iron Range meets the western tip of Lake Superior, the city of Duluth […]
A Giant Earthen Serpent Has Been Coiling Across This Ohio Hillside for Over 1,000 Years
On a high, wooded bluff above Brush Creek in Adams County, Ohio, one of the […]