Places tjhoek Wants to Go

The 40-year-old machine serves soda quicker than you can catch it for a mere 75 cents a pop.

More sculpture than building, this architecturally significant temple was built on the spot of Saint Peter's crucifixion.

This Roman arch marks the location of an ancient gate at one of the Seven Hills of Rome.

One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

The site of a 19th century "dream city" that almost rivaled Chicago before being swallowed by the Indiana sand dunes.

Urban explorers embraced America's now demolished first suburban mall, south of Chicago.

The childhood home of the Sultan of Swat is just a line drive away from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

The last of Philadelphia's wood-paved streets is now a landmark of terrible engineering.

A favorite of Amelia Earhart, ranking among those rare bridges that can be crossed without changing sides of the river.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

The legendary court where emerging basketball players gain their street cred.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

NYC's legendary underground network for bovine transportation.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

Walk over a 150 year old manhole.

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

Narrowest house in Boston.

A strangely forgotten claimant to the much contested title of "Source of the Nile."