Places dearcy Wants to Go

Assemble a masterpiece at the first and only North American school exclusively dedicated to mosaic art.

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

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

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

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

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

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

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

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

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

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

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

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

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

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

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

Positioned outside a church, this sinister folkloric figure incited protests in both 1902 and 2002.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

If the tunes of antique organs and musical marionettes don't intoxicate you, the draft beer certainly will.