Places phildzielski Wants to Go

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.

First planned industrial community in the United States.

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.

Pizza with a side of fine art.

The world's only known button museum.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

The 606 is a decade in the making.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.

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

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

Former hotel turned into haunted playground.

An abandoned meat mecca now serves as an excellent locale for urban exploration.

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.