Places jogg099 Wants to Go

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

One of the oldest and tallest lighthouses still in service on Lake Michigan.

The birthplace of a titan of American cinema.

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

University City's quirkiest resident lives in a park named after its first.

A commemoration of over 150 of St. Louis's favorite sons and daughters.

This is not your typical jungle gym.

This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.

A chessmaster's dream destination.

The only ski tunnel in North America provides easy access to amazing snow and beautiful views.

One of the few working locomotive roundhouses in the United States.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

Monty Python fans will recognize this abandoned mine as the Cave of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

The "Kill Bill Church" was transformed into a place of worship after a long Hollywood history.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The only remaining vespasienne in Paris is a (stinky) relic of Resistance.

Former home to Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka's dazzling Art Deco duplex studio.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.