Places Dangmustangg Wants to Go

The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.

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

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

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

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

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

What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.

Former hotel turned into haunted playground.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

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

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

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.

You can take a class, browse the library, or visit the lavish lair of an international men's humor society.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

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

First planned industrial community in the United States.

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

This modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.

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

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

Partially submerged Buddha heads freckle Chicago’s neighborhoods.

A curious collection of miniatures in a quiet corner of the Chicago Children's Museum.