Places clpartin Wants to Go

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

A goddess-topped water fountain in Chicago was created thanks to the dreams of a thirsty newsboy.

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

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

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

Chicago's Navy Pier on Lake Michigan was a training hub for aircraft carrier pilots during WWII.

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

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.

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

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

This vacant station is a relic of harvest processing techniques of the mid-20th century.

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

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

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

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

This little barrel-shaped cottage by Lake Superior was once a cartoonist's summer retreat.

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

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

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

No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.

Once an ornate movie theater remade by Catholic Charities.

A theater sits abandoned on Roosevelt Road, once majestic in splendor, now majestic in decay.