Places janepeytonjohnson Wants to Go

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

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

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

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

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

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

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

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.

This long, dark tunnel is open to hikers, but those without lights are known to get confused even on the straight path.

A cave interior in the shape of the ancient rhinoceros, created by lava cooling around its carcass.

There is beauty and history in the ruins of this former company town.

A semi-abandoned village destroyed by U.S. bombings during World War II dominates the valley of Turano.

People come from across the globe to swim in this lake believed to have healing properties.

A bust of the first president welcomes visitors to the only town in America called George, Washington.

Local legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghosts.

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

An annual celebration of the infamous, unsolved skyjacking.

This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.

This bridge provides safe passage for squirrels.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

Cave carved out of a huge snow drift collapsed killing one and injuring five in July 2015.