Places istnbl Wants to Go

This modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.

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

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

The world's only known button museum.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

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

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

This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.

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

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

The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.

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

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

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

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

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

A science teacher's dream.

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

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