Places TeamDD Wants to Go

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

The final resting place of up to 6,000 Confederate soldiers, the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.

What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.

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

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

This modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

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

First planned industrial community in the United States.

Former hotel turned into haunted playground.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

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

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

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

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

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

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

A museum of the dime museum that features weird entertainments of yesteryear, from feejee mermaids to flea circuses.

What appears to be a wizard's lair in Milwaukee actually houses a massive water pipe.

Behind a modern brick exterior lies the oldest continuously-operating lunch-car diner in the United States.

According to the legend, this strikingly beautiful hill has miraculous healing powers.

A restaurant and lodge in northern Wisconsin which served as a clandestine hideout for John Dillinger and featured one of the most famous botched FBI raids in history.

The birthplace of a titan of American cinema.