Places Jessfrawg Wants to Go

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

Urban explorers embraced America's now demolished first suburban mall, south of Chicago.

First planned industrial community in the United States.

Pumpkin-like gargoyles and grotesques peer down from the rooftop of this unassuming apartment building in Illinois.

A theater sits abandoned on Roosevelt Road, once majestic in splendor, now majestic in decay.

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

This former nursery supplied plants for the creation of Chicago's largest park.

A source of civic pride, though the reason for its construction is unknown.