Places baxterpop Wants to Go

Huge abstract sculptures of the Puerto Rican Flag.

The 606 is a decade in the making.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

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

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

Former bath house turns gastropub.

A beloved Chicago music venue offering cold beer and lots of “Friendly."

The Kalamazoo factory has 100 years of instrument-making, and one big wartime secret.

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

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

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

A monument to a Native American leader who was known for never breaking a promise and met his end after signing a deal with white settlers.

This moving cemetery sphere is a slowly rolling stone.

This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.

Climb right into the heart of this colorful Iceland volcano.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

The petroleum industry brings you the joys of hydrocarbons and largest collection of antique oil rigs in the world.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.