Places Gabei Wants to Go

The largest interactive exhibition in the U.S. exploring human history through the lens of power, punishment, and psychology.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

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

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

Former bath house turns gastropub.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

A small Chicago museum filled with thousands of preserved butterflies, beetles, and more.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

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

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

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

This lakefront cottage was crafted in the 1800s and was once a sanitorium.

In the middle of Calvary Cemetery stands this singular memorial to a small boy who died too young.

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

Burial site of the notorious Chicago gangster.

Tucked away amongst townhomes lies a restored, early 20th-century tea house and garden, the only remains of a historic estate.

An exhibit of items from the mental institution where Mary Todd Lincoln lived after her son conspired to have her committed.

This cemetery is all that remains of a school for "wayward" girls.