Places americangirl8 Wants to Go

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

This titanic Catholic church in Chicago is also a refuge of the fictional cult-favorite wizard detective Harry Dresden.

Where dioramas can follow you home.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

This small, but long-running hobby club has built one of the largest model rail lines in the US.

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.