Places eastwilson01 Wants to Go

A plaque marks a former safe house on the secret route, now hidden next to a McDonald's.

This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.

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

Legend says Dungeons and Dragons players can get their dice blessed at the creator of the game's memorial.

A onetime gangsters' hideaway where you can dine on steaks, fine wines, and cigars just like they once did.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

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

A science teacher's dream.

Pizza with a side of fine art.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

A historic beacon built in the aftermath of the worst maritime disaster on the Great Lakes.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.

Medical museum focused on antique anesthesiology equipment.

This historic store hides a museum exhibiting a shoe-sizing x-ray machine and a pair of kicks that once belonged to the world's tallest man.

Behind a modern brick exterior lies the oldest continuously-operating lunch-car diner in the United States.

The murals have transformed a residential alley into a vibrant drive-through gallery.

The birthplace of a titan of American cinema.

Where a brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel, and a recluse met one Saturday and changed their lives forever.

The study has wall paneling from a 17th century ship.

A six-story-tall golden pyramid, surrounded by a moat.

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

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.

This abandoned train tunnel has been the subject of countless ghost stories for years.