Places goalkeep4ever Wants to Go

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.

A largely forgotten and touching neoclassical marble fountain overlooking a bear mound effigy.

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

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

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

Location of the Real World's disastrous, and protested, eleventh season.

G.V. Black, the Father of Modern Dentistry, keeps an eternal eye on Chicagoan’s teeth from his perch in Lincoln Park.

This abstract sculpture is rumored to cast a hammer-and-sickle shadow once a year.

No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

This cheerfully-named branch of the Chicago River is the fetid result of years of blood, entrails, and meatpacking waste.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

The iconic Chicago sculpture hides a beautiful and easily overlooked plaque on the backside.

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

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

The 606 is a decade in the making.

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

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.