Places jelittlelady Wants to Go

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

"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"

An unassuming store hides relics of its former life as the jazz club that hosted some of the best black performers of the 1920s and '30s.

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

This seemingly charming home memorializes and honors the victims of a century-old unsolved murder.

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

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

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

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

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

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

One of the last functioning antique elevators in Chicago.

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

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