Places trixievw Wants to Go

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Russian history in San Francisco.

University City's quirkiest resident lives in a park named after its first.

This small town bank is very aware of its name thank you very much.

This art deco masterpiece was once a miracle spring mecca but is now simply a government office building.

Where the author wrote her beloved "Little House" books.

A museum dedicated to man's boldest venture.

Another in a long tradition of legends regarding infernal seats.

The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.

A mysterious light of unknown origin on the backroads of Missouri.

The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.

Curious cave that stays a cool 56 degrees all year long.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

Theater has had many different incarnations but has survived the ravages of time.

A Chicago Movie Palace Lost to Time.

A theater sits abandoned on Roosevelt Road, once majestic in splendor, now majestic in decay.

A beloved Chicago music venue offering cold beer and lots of “Friendly."

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.