Places Pengwn Wants to Go

The first and only museum dedicated to stained glass and horology opened outside of Chicago in 2017.

A towering Art Deco movie palace made to look like a Mayan temple.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

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

This abstract sculpture is rumored to cast a hammer-and-sickle shadow once a year.

Assemble a masterpiece at the first and only North American school exclusively dedicated to mosaic art.

The clothes-washing king doubles as a community center with some unusual features, including an aviary filled with finches.

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

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

One of the few remaining relics of the meatpacking hub that made Chicago the "hog butcher to the world."

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

This titanic Catholic church in Chicago is also a refuge of the fictional cult-favorite wizard detective Harry Dresden.

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

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

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

G.V. Black, the Father of Modern Dentistry, keeps an eternal eye on Chicagoan’s teeth from his perch in Lincoln Park.

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

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

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

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

To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.