Places earlkinsley Wants to Go

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

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

Once an ornate movie theater remade by Catholic Charities.

Landmark Chicago building narrowly avoided destruction.

A Chicago Movie Palace Lost to Time.

A bloodstain from "the wound of the transverberation of the heart."

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

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

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

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

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

This abstract sculpture is rumored to cast a hammer-and-sickle shadow once a year.

This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.

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

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

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

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

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.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.