Places FlyDaddy Wants to Go

A student designed this 3D-printed scale replica of the entire university campus.

Roses and other fascinating flora fill this garden built to commemorate Britain's immortal Bard.

Medical museum focused on antique anesthesiology equipment.

The first and only museum dedicated to stained glass and horology opened outside of Chicago in 2017.

One of the finest examples of a black soil prairie that was barely saved by the Great Depression.

A science teacher's dream.

A towering Art Deco movie palace made to look like a Mayan temple.

More than 8,000 drinking jugs say “Cheers!” to a guy named Toby.

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

Pizza with a side of fine art.

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

The sign to a demolished amusement park now stands in front of a local library.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

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

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

It was originally part of a "terrible lizards" collection at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

The young Black revolutionary was killed before getting to see a non-segregated pool in his hometown.

A source of civic pride, though the reason for its construction is unknown.

A plaque marks a former safe house on the secret route, now hidden next to a McDonald's.

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

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

Pumpkin-like gargoyles and grotesques peer down from the rooftop of this unassuming apartment building in Illinois.

This small, but long-running hobby club has built one of the largest model rail lines in the US.

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