Places shannonjahnke Wants to Go

Parking lot where a Chicago mayor was inaugurated under very sketchy circumstances.

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

"Purveyors of traditional sweets and vintage treats."

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

This historic franken-chapel is the oldest wooden church in the world, at least part of it.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.