Places reedracette Wants to Go

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

The shared home of a utopian commune that practiced "free love" a century before the hippies.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

This small stone chapel is a hidden gem just outside the University of New Hampshire campus.

Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

An institution dedicated to the towering buildings that make up skylines in New York City and around the world.

A WWI fighter plane and turn-of-the-century penny candy shop are among the unexpected features of this Financial District building.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

An homage to Jackie Gleason's bus-driving character from 'The Honeymooners.'

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

A Spiritualist house of worship where believers communicate with the dead in the spirit world.

Press 1 for knock-knock jokes.

A derelict bit of infrastructure from the canal that once ran through D.C. is landlocked in the heart of the city.

A muscular Art Deco monument represents the struggle between regulators and unbridled markets.

There just so happens to be a court even higher than the U.S Supreme Court: a basketball court in the building itself.