Places julirenner Wants to Go

This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.

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

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

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

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

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

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.