Places johncyrilokeefe 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.

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

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

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

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

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

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

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

This historic spot was where America's involvement in the Vietnam War officially came to an end.

An ornate tomb pays tribute to one of the most influential and cherished military leaders in Vietnam's history.

Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.

One of the oldest temples in Ho Chi Minh City, dedicated to a deified Chinese military leader.

Vietnam's largest Buddha statue depicts a female sage.

Witnesses claim the Virgin Mary statue outside the church once mysteriously shed a single tear.

This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.

This Vietnamese bar doubles as a multistory labyrinth.

The wartime prison now features haunting sculpted reenactments of the atrocities that took place there.

Home to what locals claim is the largest whale skeleton in Southeast Asia, which is worshiped yearly.