Places grantavery Wants to Go

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

This sprawling mini-golf empire is an impressive testament to a disappearing attraction.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

The 606 is a decade in the making.

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

First planned industrial community in the United States.

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

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

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

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

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

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

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

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

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

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