Places ars123 Wants to Go

The famous Beatle secretly visited this Illinois town several times to visit his sister.

Moving, mind-blowing metal sculpture work of an outsider artist.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

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

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

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

Pizza with a side of fine art.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

A science teacher's dream.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

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

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

A cave 150 feet beneath Kansas City is the perfect climate for growing 10,000 delicate orchids.

This pristinely abandoned filling station on the edge of a graveyard is populated solely by unsettling mannequins.

This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.