Places Jamee Wants to Go

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

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

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

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

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

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

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

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

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

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

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

The world's only known button museum.

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.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

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

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

A science teacher's dream.