You know that feeling when you’re scrolling through vacation photos of Switzerland and thinking, “Yeah, right, like I can afford that”?
Well, the Tinker Swiss Cottage Museum and Gardens in Rockford, Illinois just saved you about eight thousand dollars and a transatlantic flight.
Here’s the thing about Illinois that nobody tells you: tucked between our cornfields and deep-dish pizza joints, we’ve got some seriously weird and wonderful surprises.
And by weird, I mean a full-blown Swiss chalet sitting pretty on a limestone bluff overlooking Kent Creek like it’s the most natural thing in the world…