Places ckoohle Wants to Go

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

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

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

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

Pizza with a side of fine art.

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

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.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

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

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

A labyrinthine underworld of tunnels and caverns hides beneath the city.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

The last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city of Berlin.

An impressive Neolithic henge with banks nearly 10 feet high.

Neolithic burial chambers hidden beside a village school.

The remains of a bustling turn-of-the-century park built to showcase the wonders of electricity.

Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.

A series of caves, tunnels, and wells filled with fascinating figures and symbols.

This odd California folly seems like it was almost designed to accumulate urban legends.

An amalgam of precariously balanced boulders, ancient petroglyphs, and Buddhist shrines.

This monumental work of art symbolizes the coming together of a previously divided city.

The remains of a former colonial fort on a stretch of beach that is occasionally visited by crocodiles.