Places Sarah Finley Wants to Go

Former hotel turned into haunted playground.

One of Gettysburg’s least visited battlefield memorials is off the beaten path, but worth a visit.

The only mill in the state that features a covered bridge.

This 1854 courthouse along the Mississippi River has a storied history.

This former Union fort commands a fine view of downtown Cape Girardeau and the Mississippi River.

This historic house museum that celebrates one of the world's most influential social reformers is also one of the most haunted locations in Chicago.

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

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

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

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

Where Elvis Presley received his first Army buzz cut.

The final resting place and once home of the Bandit Queen of the West.

The poet’s boyhood home is now dedicated to celebrating his life and legacy.

Burial mounds of prehistoric Native Americans who lived along the DuPage River.

Though it's thrived abroad, this forgotten Dunkin' rival has just one store left in the States.

At the largest railway museum in the United States, you can see everything from an early steam engine to a functioning Thomas the Tank Engine.

A one-armed veteran of the Battle of Waterloo lies in a cemetery for one in the middle of a Chicago scrapyard.

A 19th-century horse lover's bequest led to the construction of this unique fountain in Chicago.

Often referred to as the largest spring in America.