Places hlabo15 Wants to Go

The former location of a platform that allowed passengers to safely wait for the trolley.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

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

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

A spectacular remnant of an Adler and Sullivan masterpiece that was destroyed in 1972.

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

Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.

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

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

A group of artists transformed this desolate city alleyway into an outdoor gallery of street art.

An off-the-beaten-path place to literally hang beneath Milwaukee's Holton Street Bridge.

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

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.

Where a brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel, and a recluse met one Saturday and changed their lives forever.

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.

This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.

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

This Dutch-styled residential building was originally a cocoa company's World's Fair showpiece.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

Not far from the more famous House of Juliet, visitors will find the supposed residence of her lover.