Places Raedar Wants to Go

Pizza with a side of fine art.

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

This modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.

The world's only known button museum.

This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

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

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

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

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

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

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

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

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

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

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

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

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

This lakefront cottage was crafted in the 1800s and was once a sanitorium.

A remnant of the last Ice Age, this lake is surrounded by fascinating rock formations.

Over thousands of years, this slot canyon was carved out of the bed of an ancient lake.

An unassuming house in Wisconsin hides a transient artist’s magnum opus.