Places darrelmw Wants to Go

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

This stately estate house features a tower covered in a bright, modern mural.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

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

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

Acres of natural wonders left behind by a socialite-turned-gardener.

The Art Deco Silver Screen.

A warehouse for all of your architectural details.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

Small shop offering mail-order rare and exotic plants.

Complex aquaponics systems allow fish and plants to grow in harmony.

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

The world's only known button museum.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.