Places SL Wants to Go

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.

This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

A place to eat for on-the-run agents and espionage enthusiasts.

An old-timey medicine shop that once served Chinese laborers during the Gold Rush is still open for business to this day.

Eclectic collection of dark and macabre antiques.

Built in 1895, this bed and breakfast was once a hospital that served an early 1900s Gold Rush boomtown.

A watering hole where the options for seating include a bar, patio, or subterranean cave.

One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.

In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

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

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

A plaque marks a former safe house on the secret route, now hidden next to a McDonald's.