Places hopemch Wants to Go

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

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

Pizza with a side of fine art.

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

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

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

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

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

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

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

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

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

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

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