Places callan726 Wants to Go

Planes, trains, and automobiles have all been sunk as attractions at this Illinois diving spot.

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

This tiny historic jail along Route 66 is the perfect fit for exactly one criminal and their partner-in-crime.

Man-made geyser that rises to the exact height of the Gateway Arch.

Today this bizarre rooftop phone booth seems like a piece of kitsch but it was once used to spot disastrous storms.

This softly rounded mansion was built without corners not to avoid evil spirits, but to make them more comfortable.

The world's third-largest scale model of the planets.

Orthodox church partially financed by Tsar Nicolas II.

This architectural stunner is one of the few surviving Egyptian Revival theaters in the U.S.

First known as the "Sample House," this construction mash-up was meant to be a living catalogue of building styles.

Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.

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

The remains of a Rockefeller's lush Italianate estate hidden in the underbrush on the coast of Lake Michigan.

This botanical garden outside Chicago boasts an array of more than 300 varieties of lilacs.

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

This abandoned 19th century orphanage started as a boarding school for children of Civil War veterans.

Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.

Arguably the best example of an authentic Dutch windmill in the United States, rivaling its counterparts in the Netherlands.

The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.

Museum dedicated to the art of cutting and polishing stones.

This small, but long-running hobby club has built one of the largest model rail lines in the US.

One of the last functioning antique elevators in Chicago.

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