Places Caroline Thrift Wants to Go

These mansions date back to Chicago's days as a brewer's paradise.

The final resting place of up to 6,000 Confederate soldiers, the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

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

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

This modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.

First planned industrial community in the United States.

In one Chicago park, a trio of werewolves are waiting to devour their fallen brethren.

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

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

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

The world's only known button museum.

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

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

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

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

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