Places bikerrrchik Wants to Go

Once defending the city of New Orleans from invasion by sea, this fort faces an uncertain future.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

Imagine playing a version of Legends of the Hidden Temple, but with a distinctly Southern Gothic flare.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

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

Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

Over 1,000 pieces of one of the most niche art objects imaginable: the glass paperweight.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

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