Places mxhurley01 Wants to Go

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

Pizza with a side of fine art.

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

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 gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

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

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

A 50-year old dive bar that has its own yacht club.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

After a short 5 year run, this former major theme park sits in ruin.

A failed Russian themed village and amusement park in Niigata prefecture.

Okinawan dining in a twenty foot tall, man-made tree house overlooking Naha Harbor.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

The largest privately owned statue of Buddha in Japan, built by a total amateur, with an unconventional look.