Places Annaml Wants to Go

One woman's lifelong collection is on display in this unassuming house on an Icelandic fjord.

This elderly couple's hand-picked collection of rare gems is one of the finest in all of Iceland.

The body of one of the world's most famous outlaws is covered in cement and iron to prevent it from being stolen.

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.

The first spinning jail built in the United States is the only one that still turns.

The first artificial white water river course in North America cuts right through an Indiana city.

Urban explorers embraced America's now demolished first suburban mall, south of Chicago.

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

A small abandoned and abused cemetery that has become a magnet for ghost hunters.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

Chicago’s incendiary role in the labor movement.

A 19th-century horse lover's bequest led to the construction of this unique fountain in Chicago.

Julia Buccola Petta's body was peculiarly well-preserved when it was exhumed six years after her death.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

A plaque marks a former safe house on the secret route, now hidden next to a McDonald's.

Pumpkin-like gargoyles and grotesques peer down from the rooftop of this unassuming apartment building in Illinois.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

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

An actual 1957 Cadillac De Ville, encased in 15 cubic yards of concrete.

Moving, mind-blowing metal sculpture work of an outsider artist.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.

One of the few remaining relics of the meatpacking hub that made Chicago the "hog butcher to the world."

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.