Places katiecoffeebialy Wants to Go

Celebrate the history of the rich and truly misunderstood relationship between man and pigeon.

An immersive art experience built by local arts collaborative, Factory Obscura, in the building formerly known as The Womb, a psychedelic arts center founded by the frontman of the Flaming Lips.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

A small Chicago museum filled with thousands of preserved butterflies, beetles, and more.

An eccentric park and pool.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

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

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

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

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

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

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

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 Bibliophile's Dream.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

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

An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.

This New Orleans boutique and nursery specializes in rare flora, with a focus on carnivorous plants.