Places Ryshili Wants to Go

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

A small Chicago museum filled with thousands of preserved butterflies, beetles, and more.

This small, but long-running hobby club has built one of the largest model rail lines in the US.

One of the last functioning antique elevators in Chicago.

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

You can take a class, browse the library, or visit the lavish lair of an international men's humor society.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

An actual 1957 Cadillac De Ville, encased in 15 cubic yards of concrete.

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

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

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

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.