Places Gabei Wants to Go

A place to eat for on-the-run agents and espionage enthusiasts.

The only Native American intaglio left in Wisconsin.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

The preserved remains of the former Milwaukee County Hospital for the Insane are hidden in the wooded grounds of County Park.

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

The tunnel that runs beneath this former inn was once a hiding place for enslaved people seeking freedom.

The world’s largest collection of angel figurines includes 600 black angels donated by Oprah Winfrey.

This unassuming city park is home to three different types of Native American mounds.

A wondrously macabre treasury of obscure antiques and unusual oddities.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.

A small abandoned and abused cemetery that has become a magnet for ghost hunters.

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

The spaceship-like theater, which is still in use, was one of the most popular exhibits at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

The final resting place of up to 6,000 Confederate soldiers, the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.

Walk along the intricate path of this stone labyrinth and gardens.

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

Tour the luxe "glass cage" that inspired and unnerved the architecture world upon its debut.

How did a 2,000-year-old Roman column find its way to a Chicago park?

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

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

A curious collection of miniatures in a quiet corner of the Chicago Children's Museum.

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

The only Chicago bridgehouse open to the public contains a museum devoted to the Chicago River.