Places zamand Wants to Go

A Bibliophile's Dream.

The 606 is a decade in the making.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

A beloved Chicago music venue offering cold beer and lots of “Friendly."

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

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

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

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

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

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

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

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

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

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

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

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

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

Two Civil War-era cemeteries stuck between runways at the world's busiest airport.

The legacies of two historic Black American institutions live on in this unassuming brick building.

Beside some power panels, a plaque celebrates the history of an alternate world.

A hidden oasis just two minutes from downtown Atlanta.

An unsettling sculpture of a boy hanging out in a street in Ghent has been baffling visitors for years.