Here are five excellent places to reflect and recharge. Just don’t everybody go at once.

From its home in Oak Brook, the Lizzadro Museum spotlights a captivating collection of stones, both hand-carved and in their natural state. Jade carvings, cameos and dioramas live side-by-side with fossils and rough minerals.

There is now more to explore at a local museum that really rocks. We visit the Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art, which recently reopened to the public.

We visit a treasure box of a museum in the western suburbs and find out about the immigrant who built it, one stone at a time.