Places caitmckay Wants to Go

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

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

The world's only known button museum.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

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

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

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

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

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

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

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

Nature and religion are reunited at this unconventional church in the forest.

This historic franken-chapel is the oldest wooden church in the world, at least part of it.

This stave church nestled in the Catskills was built in the 1960s by a community of Ukrainian immigrants and refugees.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

This fairytale medieval church in Poland originally spent centuries in Norway.

The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

An intricately carved Viking church overlooks a glistening fjord.

This ancient cave is home to a museum, bar, and is filled with fluorescent minerals.