Places that1uplife Wants to Go

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

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

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

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

Where dioramas can follow you home.

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

How did a 2,000-year-old Roman column find its way to a Chicago park?

The last remnants of a lakeside airport that was bulldozed overnight by the mayor of Chicago.

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

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

The last masonry skyscraper ever built reveals a transitional moment in architectural history.

From banquet hall to Masonic Lodge and now concert venue, Ganz Hall is a breathtaking glimpse of into the golden age of American architecture.

Over 1,000 pieces of one of the most niche art objects imaginable: the glass paperweight.

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

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

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

Louis Sullivan’s dark, swirling cast-iron designs envelop a popular department store in this Chicago landmark.

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

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

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

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

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.