Places elgnomoroamo Wants to Go

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

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

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

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

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

This sprawling mini-golf empire is an impressive testament to a disappearing attraction.

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

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

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

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

First planned industrial community in the United States.

Former hotel turned into haunted playground.

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

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

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

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

The world's only known button museum.

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

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

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

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.