Places Gillian Wants to Go

Former bath house turns gastropub.

Where Cusack's record store from the film "High Fidelity" was located.

This softly rounded mansion was built without corners not to avoid evil spirits, but to make them more comfortable.

One of the last functioning antique elevators in Chicago.

Location of the Real World's disastrous, and protested, eleventh season.

The oldest house in Chicago certainly doesn't look the part and there are some who say it doesn't deserve its title either.

This historic store hides a museum exhibiting a shoe-sizing x-ray machine and a pair of kicks that once belonged to the world's tallest man.

Despite its name, this fast food museum is actually a replica of the ninth McDonald's store.

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

Glass and concrete building designed by Albert Kahn.

This museum collects over a century of automobile history including the iconic car from The Muppet Movie.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

Weighing 30,000 pounds, this monument represents Detroit's first industrial era.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

A park and memorial dedicated to the victims of the deadliest school massacre in American history.

House built with over 60,000 glass bottles.

A Chicago Movie Palace Lost to Time.

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

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

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.