Places devenmajcan Wants to Go

The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.

A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.

The remains of a religious colony, its amusement park, zoo, and baseball empire.

This holy goods emporium is where priests go for a little retail therapy to outfit their churches.

The Bong-area park police have asked visitors to please, stop stealing the signs.

The site of a 19th century "dream city" that almost rivaled Chicago before being swallowed by the Indiana sand dunes.

This historic Illinois "Muffler Man" has been converted from axe-touting lumberjack to rocket-wielding space ace.

Tour the luxe "glass cage" that inspired and unnerved the architecture world upon its debut.

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.

A small abandoned and abused cemetery that has become a magnet for ghost hunters.

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

Cold War missile launch site which has been converted to a public park.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

The 606 is a decade in the making.

This cemetery is all that remains of a school for "wayward" girls.

People escaping slavery passed through the oldest house in Lombard, Illinois on their northbound journey to freedom.

Julia Buccola Petta's body was peculiarly well-preserved when it was exhumed six years after her death.

The original Garfield station is the oldest station facility on the "L", with the station house dating from 1892.

Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.

These chunky stone towers out in Lake Michigan are the key to Chicago’s drinking water.

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