Places isabelleryann Wants to Go

This old-fashioned confectionary has been family owned and operated for more than a century.

The world's only known button museum.

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.

In a quiet north Chicago neighborhood rests a stunning relic of the golden age of earthenware design.

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

A beloved Chicago music venue offering cold beer and lots of “Friendly."

A Bibliophile's Dream.

Designed by Alfred Caldwel, this landscape showcases his vision of a native garden.

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

Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

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

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.

A hidden oasis just north of Chicago's Chinatown.

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

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

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

In 2004, a Dave Matthews Band tour bus dumped 800 pounds of waste off a bridge and onto an unsuspecting tour boat below.