Places Anonymous22 Wants to Go

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

The iconic Chicago sculpture hides a beautiful and easily overlooked plaque on the backside.

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

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

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

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

Combination beer garden and music venue in the heart of Wicker Park.

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

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

The world's only known button museum.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

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

The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.

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

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.

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