Places Loo Wants to Go

Where dioramas can follow you home.

A Japanese temple, old German townhouses, and public chess tables offer a peaceful escape from the bustle of the North Side.

This small, but long-running hobby club has built one of the largest model rail lines in the US.

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

A curious collection of miniatures in a quiet corner of the Chicago Children's Museum.

These mansions date back to Chicago's days as a brewer's paradise.

In a quiet north Chicago neighborhood rests a stunning relic of the golden age of earthenware design.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

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

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

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

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

This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

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.

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

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.