This Fairytale Cottage In Illinois Looks Like It Was Plucked Straight From The Alps

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…

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