Places AMHAT Wants to Go

This memorial honors the performers who died when two trains collided.

Housed in the university planetarium, the thousand-strong collection of tiny towelettes includes a used one from the hosts of Car Talk.

The plants form a living library and laboratory for researchers and students at Michigan State University.

Perched atop a brick smokestack, this enormous lug nut symbolizes the local minor league baseball team.

This mechanical wonder towers above a river in Michigan's capital city.

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

Assemble a masterpiece at the first and only North American school exclusively dedicated to mosaic art.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

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

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

Designed by Alfred Caldwel, this landscape showcases his vision of a native garden.

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

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

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

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

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

The only Chicago bridgehouse open to the public contains a museum devoted to the Chicago River.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

A spectacular remnant of an Adler and Sullivan masterpiece that was destroyed in 1972.

Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.

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

Also known as the Osaka Garden, this garden was originally built in 1893 as part of the World's Columbian Exposition.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.