Places caitlinhug7 Wants to Go

An old town theater converted into a celebration of the hobo legacy.

A warning to the weak-kneed: This narrow bridge does its swinging eight stories high.

This seemingly charming home memorializes and honors the victims of a century-old unsolved murder.

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

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

A medical facility that has been kept frozen in time.

The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.

A hidden network of subterranean passageways lies tangled beneath Indianapolis' bustling City Market.

Once an ornate movie theater remade by Catholic Charities.

A one-armed veteran of the Battle of Waterloo lies in a cemetery for one in the middle of a Chicago scrapyard.

A mythical bird etched into the face of a rock doubles as the mascot for a nearby school.

A Chicago Movie Palace Lost to Time.

A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

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

This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.

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

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

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.

An old asylum graveyard that's been abandoned for half a century attracts those seeking a dark thrill.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.