Places marytreptow Wants to Go

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

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

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

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

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

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

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

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

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

Advice-columnist's bell tower, paid for with pennies.

This railway-turned-greenway provides a pedestrian link in downtown Detroit and celebrates urban artwork.

This library is a reader's paradise and a plant lover's dream.

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

The world's second-longest burning light bulb.

This small museum tells the story of Fort Worth's first and largest superstore.

The "world’s largest honky-tonk" also has its own indoor rodeo arena.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.

The man who wasn't there.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

No one knows how or why this painting appeared to produce crystallized tears.