Places dcooke464 Wants to Go

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

How did a 2,000-year-old Roman column find its way to a Chicago park?

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

A river with some unusual, and occasionally dangerous, habits.

A hidden grotto on the grounds of the Kane County Government Center.

This monolithic statue was erected in honor of Chief Black Hawk (even if it wasn't made to look like him).

The final resting place of one of Chicago’s most iconic drill rappers.

The design of this ornately decorated place of worship closely mirrors a church in Vietnam.

A small sculpture garden that provides a microcosmic representation of California.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

The largest burial mound in the United States holds the remains of prehistoric West Virginians.

With over 100 jam-packed rooms to explore plus elaborate tea services and events, the Mansion on O Street is a hidden treasure.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

Native builders raised these mounds centuries ago, before local families turned one into a cemetery.

This fortress was built using the last surviving stones from the Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

A subterranean necropolis blending Egyptian, Hellenic, and Roman traditions and art styles.

The once great capital of Egypt now crumbles forward as evocative ruins.

One of the two original gateways into the Kasbah, this gateway is a nesting site for storks.

Mosaics, storks, and brothels—this ancient city has it all.

The other side is actually green.

Thousands of narrow alleyways in an ancient medieval city make up what's believed to be the world's largest car-free urban zone.

The remains of a magnificent medieval fortress that was the capital of a vast empire.