Places sorcha1977 Wants to Go

A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.

These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

In a cemetery full of holy men, mobsters, and haunted graves, among the most remarkable graves an ordinary husband and wife's spinning headstone.

A board game enthusiast's love for the game, memorialized forever.

Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.

Tour the luxe "glass cage" that inspired and unnerved the architecture world upon its debut.

A small abandoned and abused cemetery that has become a magnet for ghost hunters.

This botanical garden outside Chicago boasts an array of more than 300 varieties of lilacs.

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

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

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

A sandstone corridor so narrow that it feels like the wilderness closing in on itself.

A blufftop prairie and limestone cliff with 30-mile views across two great rivers and prime bald eagle territory.

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

The highest waterfall between the Rockies and the Appalachian Mountains.

These waterfalls can be twins or triplets, depending on how much it's rained recently.

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

Everything in this miniature world was handmade from matches, paperclips, wires, tin cans, and other everyday objects.

Home to a seasonal waterfall and swimming hole in the Ouachita Mountains.

A large stone map of Arkansas awaits visitors to its highest point.

This technicolor classic diner is known for its nine-pound banana splits and retro flair.

At this historic Huntington diner, a century of stories hovers over every booth.