Places lelandbuck Wants to Go

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

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

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

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

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

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

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

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

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

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

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

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

A hidden world of exotic succulents and cacti.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.