Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

First planned industrial community in the United States.

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

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

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

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

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

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

The first singer to cut a country music record is buried in a small graveyard in Atlanta, Georgia.

A hidden oasis just two minutes from downtown Atlanta.

The only subterranean ping pong table in Atlanta.

A mural in rural Georgia welcomes visitors to a fictional Missouri town.

The picturesque southern city served as the zombie-filled town of Woodbury in 'The Walking Dead.'