Chicago, Illinois
Rock N Roll McDonald's and Museum
The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Chicago, Illinois
The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.
Mackinac County, Michigan
The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.
San Francisco, California
The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.
Chicago, Illinois
This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.
Washington, D.C.
The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.
Lisle, Illinois
A tribute to one granddaughter's old apartment which now represents the whims of each visitor.
Chicago, Illinois
This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."
Savannah, Georgia
"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.
Salt Lake City, Utah
The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.
Kenosha, Wisconsin
Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.
Chicago, Illinois
A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.
Montreal, Québec
Montreal's colorful subway station shows its support of the local LGBT+ community.
Chicago, Illinois
This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.
Wendover, Utah
Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.
Montreal, Québec
Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.
Montreal, Québec
A historic Montreal market that was the city's agricultural hub for over century.
Chicago, Illinois
A theater sits abandoned on Roosevelt Road, once majestic in splendor, now majestic in decay.
Key West, Florida
An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.
Chicago, Illinois
This cheerfully-named branch of the Chicago River is the fetid result of years of blood, entrails, and meatpacking waste.
Key West, Florida
The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.
Chicago, Illinois
The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.
Oak Park, Illinois
The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
The museum moved on, but the diorama remain.
Chicago, Illinois
This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.