Places LeslieDriskill Wants to Go

Spend the night in this former asylum for the incurably insane, which claims to be one of the most haunted places in the United States.

A warning to the weak-kneed: This narrow bridge does its swinging eight stories high.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

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

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

A hidden oasis just north of Chicago's Chinatown.

The last remnants of a lakeside airport that was bulldozed overnight by the mayor of Chicago.

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

Barcelona's historic 19th-century sewers, whose foundations were laid in medieval times, are open to the public for exploring.

Dunk your churros in rich hot chocolate on the city’s old “Chocolate Street.”

Possibly the oldest church in Barcelona, this basilica has its pagan and Christian mythologies all mixed up.

Once a thriving town of 100, Argonne was abandoned around 1970.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

This pub boasts a curious history and may have inspired a Dickens character.

This sprawling, Brutalist estate feels like a city within a city.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

After a long career, a disastrous sinking, and a half-successful salvage, this Naval vessel-turned-artificial reef ended up exactly where she was supposed to—with a little help from nature.

One of the most accessible undersea plane wrecks in the world.

An underwater road considered a possible Atlantis location.

This collection of ancient, mountaintop, underground tombs was once hidden by decades of bloodshed.

A saloon and inn that served the Wild West's most iconic figures—and is still haunted by some of them today.

Adobe ruins punctuate the beauty of an 800 foot canyon carved by the Canadian River.