Places DrChopSuey Wants to Go

Location of the Real World's disastrous, and protested, eleventh season.

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

Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.

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

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

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

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

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

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.

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

In a quiet north Chicago neighborhood rests a stunning relic of the golden age of earthenware design.

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

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

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

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

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

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

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

A Bibliophile's Dream.

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 diminutive memorial marks the site of a successful assassination by a right-wing death squad in America's capital.