Chicago, Illinois
Shit Fountain
A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Chicago, Illinois
A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.
Chicago, Illinois
Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.
Chicago, Illinois
This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.
Chicago, Illinois
The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.
Chicago, Illinois
This modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.
Chicago, Illinois
First planned industrial community in the United States.
East Chicago, Indiana
This old steel industry company town has a tradition of parking cars on the sidewalk so people can walk in the narrow streets.
Twentynine Palms, California
The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.
Twentynine Palms, California
In California, colorful roadside signs remind us all that love transcends borders.
Peach Springs, Arizona
In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.
Williams, Arizona
Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.
Panguitch, Utah
The notorious Wild West outlaw was raised in this unassuming abode.
Monroe, Utah
One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.
Moab, Utah
This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.
Moab, Utah
The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.
Cisco, Utah
Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.
Montrose, Colorado
An eclectic collection of artifacts from the Wild West is preserved in a remote fictional pioneer town.
Orchard, Colorado
In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.
Hastings, Nebraska
The home for all things Kool-Aid offers everything except a chance to actually enjoy the drink.
Adair, Iowa
Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.
Dexter, Iowa
The notorious couple camped at this site after a bloody shootout with police.
Erie, Pennsylvania
A quirky collection of outsider art made from automobile parts.
Buffalo, New York
A forsaken wonder in the middle of the East Side neighborhood.
Buffalo, New York
The site of William McKinley's tragic assassination is only marked by an underwhelming boulder.