Places paulderev Wants to Go

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

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.

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

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

In 2004, a Dave Matthews Band tour bus dumped 800 pounds of waste off a bridge and onto an unsuspecting tour boat below.

A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

A lone traffic cone perched on a ledge has remained unmoved since at least 2011, unofficially earning the status of a tiny Chicago landmark.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

A synth musician's paradise at the heart of a community responsible for the soundtrack to 'Stranger Things.'

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

Austin’s local mountain isn’t really a mountain at all.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

A small island hides in plain sight on Austin's Lady Bird Lake.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

This small stone building, the final work of a renowned artist, offers a peaceful environment with radiant, colorful glass windows .

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.