Places Jessfrawg Wants to Go

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

Where dioramas can follow you home.

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

An eccentric park and pool.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

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

The world's only known button museum.

A Chicago Movie Palace Lost to Time.

Landmark Chicago building narrowly avoided destruction.

Orthodox church partially financed by Tsar Nicolas II.

A chance to follow in the footsteps of the word's most legendary animator.

Once an ornate movie theater remade by Catholic Charities.

In Chicago, a pizza-enthusiast has opened a museum dedicated to the history of pizza.

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

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

This historic house museum that celebrates one of the world's most influential social reformers is also one of the most haunted locations in Chicago.

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

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

A former atom smasher turned into an art gallery.

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.

Honoring Italian greats from Joe DiMaggio to Rocky Marciano.

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

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

Inside the center are Italian works of art and a replica model of St. Peter's Basilica.