Places jackrockocasey Wants to Go

This small, but long-running hobby club has built one of the largest model rail lines in the US.

First planned industrial community in the United States.

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

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

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

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

This vintage animatronics show is the Vegas version of a walk through the woods.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

This ancient theater was once the home of fierce gladiatorial battles.

A unique underground structure dating back to the 1st century BC.

In the basement of a San Francisco performing arts center, a small museum dedicated to the history of showgirls.

Nearly four centuries after its founding, remnants of one of the oldest planned communities in North America are still visible in southern Brooklyn.

The middle finger of modernity.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

This unassuming passageway played a key role in one of the most important events in U.S. history.

The boulder on which Alexander Hamilton laid his head after a deadly duel can still be visited on the New Jersey coast.

A basement pool hall is the front for some of the best Dominican food in New York City.