Places ginarose Wants to Go

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

Not to be confused with the iconic New York City skyscraper, this Chicago building is a vibrant hub for artists.

An actual 1957 Cadillac De Ville, encased in 15 cubic yards of concrete.

One of the last functioning antique elevators in Chicago.

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

Combination beer garden and music venue in the heart of Wicker Park.

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

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

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

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

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

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

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

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

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

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

This sculpture perfectly models the molecular structure of a drug that was never produced.

Home to New Mexico's longest bar, this watering hole also has a mining museum and a haunted history.

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

Explore a misty river canyon from a metal bridge system.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.