Places OldEarlGreg Wants to Go

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

One of the oldest continually operating drinking establishments west of the Mississippi.

This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

A colorful statue honoring the local salmon in glass and bronze.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

This painted blacktop brings the classic arcade game to life.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

Burial mounds of prehistoric Native Americans who lived along the DuPage River.

Huge abstract sculptures of the Puerto Rican Flag.

Partially submerged Buddha heads freckle Chicago’s neighborhoods.

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

This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.

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

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

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.