Places lisaintheevening Wants to Go

Julia Buccola Petta's body was peculiarly well-preserved when it was exhumed six years after her death.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

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.

A goddess-topped water fountain in Chicago was created thanks to the dreams of a thirsty newsboy.

Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

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.

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

The iconic Chicago sculpture hides a beautiful and easily overlooked plaque on the backside.

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

Honoring Italian greats from Joe DiMaggio to Rocky Marciano.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

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

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

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

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

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

Chicago’s incendiary role in the labor movement.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

G.V. Black, the Father of Modern Dentistry, keeps an eternal eye on Chicagoan’s teeth from his perch in Lincoln Park.

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