Places wherearewedude Wants to Go

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

A sprawling outdoor museum filled with larger-than-life works of art.

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

This old steel industry company town has a tradition of parking cars on the sidewalk so people can walk in the narrow streets.

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

A one-armed veteran of the Battle of Waterloo lies in a cemetery for one in the middle of a Chicago scrapyard.

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

How did a 2,000-year-old Roman column find its way to a Chicago park?

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

The birthplace of a titan of American cinema.

A river with some unusual, and occasionally dangerous, habits.

The remains of a Rockefeller's lush Italianate estate hidden in the underbrush on the coast of Lake Michigan.

The study has wall paneling from a 17th century ship.

This sprawling mini-golf empire is an impressive testament to a disappearing attraction.

Where a brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel, and a recluse met one Saturday and changed their lives forever.

The oldest house in Chicago certainly doesn't look the part and there are some who say it doesn't deserve its title either.

Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.

A science teacher's dream.

A towering Art Deco movie palace made to look like a Mayan temple.

A chance to follow in the footsteps of the word's most legendary animator.

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

A tribute to the hard-working men and women of Grumman, who crafted F-14 fighter jets.

The first commercial nuclear power plant constructed on Long Island.

The second-largest (of only two in the world) large particle collider is the underdog of experimental physics.