Places melodml Wants to Go

Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.

A onetime gangsters' hideaway where you can dine on steaks, fine wines, and cigars just like they once did.

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

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

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

Where Cusack's record store from the film "High Fidelity" was located.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

Where old school Polish Chicago and young hipster Chicago live side by side.

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

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

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

France's Lilliputian park displays over 100 of the country's monuments for visitor perusal.

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.

Two small chapels housed inside an ancient tree.

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

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

César Baldaccini's iconic sculpture of a 40-foot thumb stands tall in La Défense.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.