Sarah died in 1922, leaving an unfinished, sprawling mansion with 13 bathrooms, 40 bedrooms, 2 ballrooms, and a few quirks. Sarah was obsessed with the number 13, so all the windows had 13 panes, and the number 13 carries through many of the details of the house.

If you find yourself driving up the I-94 towards the Illinois-Wisconsin border, you will feel that you have lost your mind and landed straight in the middle of a full-blown mirage around the halfway point.  Looking to the right, you will catch sight of an image directly out of the Nile River Valley and the [...]