Places caitlinhug7 Wants to Go

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

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

The 40-year-old machine serves soda quicker than you can catch it for a mere 75 cents a pop.

A river with some unusual, and occasionally dangerous, habits.

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

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

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

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

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

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

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

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

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

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

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

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

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