Places Maggie Mason Wants to Go

One of the best examples of Modernist religious architecture in Mexico City.

The last home designed in its entirety by noted architect Luis Barragán owes its existence to an impressive jacaranda tree.

This giant expressionist head crowns a museum devoted to a beloved Mexican leader.

The museum houses "the most studied meteorite in history," among other geological oddities.

Murals made with millions of colorful stones adorn the abandoned building.

Underneath the historic center of Mexico City, the remains of a temple dedicated to the Aztec god of the wind.

This extraordinary art museum is like a secret world on the edge of Mexico City.

The burial place of some of Mexico's most prominent residents is full of macabre stories and hidden masonic symbols.

This French cemetery houses some of the most exquisite examples of funerary art in Mexico City.

Meant to be one of the most extravagant hotels in the world, now an eerie, abandoned architectural gem in Mexico City.

To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.

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

A chance to follow in the footsteps of the word's most legendary animator.

The final resting place of up to 6,000 Confederate soldiers, the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.

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

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

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

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

Assemble a masterpiece at the first and only North American school exclusively dedicated to mosaic art.

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.

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

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

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