Places sorcha1977 Wants to Go

One of the last functioning antique elevators in Chicago.

You can take a class, browse the library, or visit the lavish lair of an international men's humor society.

A six-story-tall golden pyramid, surrounded by a moat.

The iconic Chicago sculpture hides a beautiful and easily overlooked plaque on the backside.

Where old school Polish Chicago and young hipster Chicago live side by side.

An actual 1957 Cadillac De Ville, encased in 15 cubic yards of concrete.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

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

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

The ruins of a 19th century shelter run by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

This historic cliffside mansion uses a natural cave for air conditioning.

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

400 million-year old limestone caverns nestled in the Ozarks served as shelter and a hideout for cultures throughout North American history.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

The first and only museum dedicated to stained glass and horology opened outside of Chicago in 2017.

Cold War missile launch site which has been converted to a public park.