Places BryanKnight Wants to Go

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

Taxidermy, Cigar Store Indians, A Model of a New York Tenement and Delicious Draft Root Beer.

A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.

What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

This sprawling mini-golf empire is an impressive testament to a disappearing attraction.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.

Former hotel turned into haunted playground.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

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

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

This mausoleum is the final resting place of one of St. Louis's richest and most tragic families.

This unassuming riverbank is Missouri’s first designated site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

A floating museum that was sunk by a flood and left to rot in the tides.

One of the world's earliest skyscrapers.

During the 19th-century, this park was a vital trading fort.

This spot in St. Louis, marked with a simple sign, has seen more pro baseball than just about anywhere else in the world.

One man's unrequited love stands in a glass box forever.

One of few surviving standpipe water towers in the U.S.