Chicago, Illinois
Vinny’s Circle
The buildings around this DePaul University statue create an echo chamber for those standing in the center of the circle.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Chicago, Illinois
The buildings around this DePaul University statue create an echo chamber for those standing in the center of the circle.
Wortham, Texas
Cemetery officials are finally seeing that the Father of Texas Blues’ grave is kept clean.
Louisville, Kentucky
The largest cemetery in Louisville is the final resting place of Col. Sanders and Muhammad Ali.
Louisville, Kentucky
The only building in Louisville (hopefully) that contains two ancient holy skeletons.
St. Augustine, Florida
Bronze footprints mark the path where a civil rights leader tried to march in peaceful protest before being knocked unconscious.
Rocheport, Missouri
This whimsical statue marks the high water level from the Great Flood of 1993.
Prague, Czechia
The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.
Manětín, Czechia
Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.
Memphis, Tennessee
The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.
San Francisco, California
A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.
Detroit, Michigan
This elaborately-carved white marble fountain was built to stand outside the Detroit Opera House.
San Jose, California
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
Ste. Genevieve, Missouri
A subterranean haunt where wine and homemade biscottis are always on the menu.
Ramona, California
This Pringle-shaped ledge makes for the perfect photo op.
San Diego, California
One man's quest for the ultimate road trip vehicle.
Monroeville, Alabama
An Alabama courtroom where two famous American authors played as children became the setting for a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
Dallas, Texas
A city park that sits on top of a freeway.
Venice, Italy
This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.
Prague, Czechia
A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.
Paris, France
Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.
St. Louis, Missouri
The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.
Godfrey, Illinois
Though it's thrived abroad, this forgotten Dunkin' rival has just one store left in the States.
Machynlleth, Wales
Led Zeppelin wrote some of their most iconic songs at this little 18th-century Welsh cottage.