Places adamrodman Wants to Go

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

Sacks of potatoes, made of cast stone, mark where the iconic potato sheds once stood along the river.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

The scarce remains of a sunken ship peek out from the sand on East Beach.

The two writers famously didn't come to blows over the Oxford comma.

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

This humble resting place belongs to one of history's most celebrated restaurateurs.

A plaque marking the famous abolitionist's birthplace often overlooked by visitors to the nearby Charles Sumner House.

Whimsical cookie-themed plaques mark the birthplace of the Fig Newton.

A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.

A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

A boardwalk winds through this sliver of coastal nature hidden within Sydney.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

This former military installation was turned into a discipline center by the Taiwanese Navy.

The tangled roots of a giant banyan tree have fully reclaimed the ruins of this abandoned warehouse.

The small first-floor apartment where the author wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning book 'Gone with the Wind.'

This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

A collection of artifacts from Maryland's maritime past.

Mountain where Jesus was first tempted by the Devil.

These secluded and abandoned anti-aircraft defenses have become one the most scenic viewpoints in Barcelona.