Places paleasfunk Wants to Go

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.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.

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.

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

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

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

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.

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

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

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

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

One of the oldest Black communities in western North Carolina and one of the largest Black Mennonite congregations in the country.

A vast collection of everyday items amassed by one man.

The author's beautiful and historic home is also a fully functioning goat farm.

Step past the gas pumps and into a fine French bistro.

A year-long seasonal produce clock highlighting a variety of fruits and vegetables from across the Piedmont region.

A museum celebrating rare American motorcycles where everything runs—and none of it quietly.