Places halfLight7 Wants to Go

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

Oversized statues are just the tip of this nostalgic Americana roadside attraction.

Cold War missile launch site which has been converted to a public park.

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

A river with some unusual, and occasionally dangerous, habits.

The legacy of an unsolved, gruesome murder rests beneath the spans of this historic bridge.

A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.

Taxidermy, Cigar Store Indians, A Model of a New York Tenement and Delicious Draft Root Beer.

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

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

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

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

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

This modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.

This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.

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.

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

Pizza with a side of fine art.

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

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

The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.

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.