Places scottjung Wants to Go

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

The only runway directly into the magic kingdom has been closed since 1972, but it still sings to you if you drive fast enough.

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

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

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

A downtown park built on top of unclaimed graves.

A tiny memorial for the year the Connecticut River almost destroyed New England.

An easy-to-miss plaque marks the building that first held this 19th-century telephone innovation.

A tribute to the truly loyal dog who waited outside a hospital for his owner to come back.

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.