Places bluebot Wants to Go

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

A Chicago Movie Palace Lost to Time.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

In a quiet north Chicago neighborhood rests a stunning relic of the golden age of earthenware design.

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

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

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

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

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

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

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

The storied steakhouse is the last in a long line of Lebanese-owned supper clubs in Tulsa.

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

VW heaven in the backwoods of Dade City, now gone.

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.