Places jeams Wants to Go

Enter the Forest of the Elves.

An unusual assortment of art, furniture, and other curiosities.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

Inside the Wayne County airport is an amazing collection of lights and sounds.

This historic Jewish cemetery sits right in the heart of a Detroit car factory.

Collective made up of artists, musicians, and activists.

The world’s largest Masonic temple was saved by the White Stripes.

This feline raises a friendly paw at drivers barreling toward the freeway.

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

This titanic Catholic church in Chicago is also a refuge of the fictional cult-favorite wizard detective Harry Dresden.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

This historic-shipwreck-cum-diving-spot can still be seen poking its boiler out of the Lake Michigan waters that claimed it.

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

An actual 1957 Cadillac De Ville, encased in 15 cubic yards of concrete.

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

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

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

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

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.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.