Places EFS Wants to Go

Vintage neon signs illuminate highway history.

The only Chicago bridgehouse open to the public contains a museum devoted to the Chicago River.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

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

Just off I-55 in McLean, Illinois, is a place where you can play over 100 arcade and pinball machines for 25-75 cents a pop.

While there are no actual snakes in the history of this crooked road, there may be a number of dead horses.

Over 120 years ago, the original boardgame that inspired Monopoly was invented in this small Illinois town.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

A section in the cemetery mostly for circus performers, including victims of the famous 1918 Hammond Circus train wreck.

This hidden jockey “walk of fame” celebrates the winning riders of the Kentucky Derby.

Soaring over the Niagara Whirlpool since 1916.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

The spaceship-like theater, which is still in use, was one of the most popular exhibits at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

A surreal, interdimensional shopping center and portal to another universe by Meow Wolf.

A memorial dedicated to a traveling circus elephant killed by a lightning strike in 1972.

One man spent decades making these working scale models of antique cars.