Places acrig Wants to Go

At low tide, you can see the remains of a 17th-century ship just off a Stockholm island.

This log house sits in the remote Canadian wilderness, and holds a mysterious tale of the trapper who built it.

Over 300 historical instruments from around the world can be found in the Royal Northern College of Music's basement.

This striking pig statue was part of a 1993 guerilla art project against racism.

A unique museum that uses visual art and storytelling to reveal the hidden history of the Gullah Geechee and their African ancestors.

A relatively young Buddhist temple on hilltop, dedicated to a statue relocated from Mount Atago.

This remote site in the Australian Outback is where the British government conducted atomic bomb tests in the 1950s.

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.

A bloodstain from "the wound of the transverberation of the heart."

No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

In the middle of Calvary Cemetery stands this singular memorial to a small boy who died too young.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.