Places that1uplife Wants to Go

It was originally part of a "terrible lizards" collection at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

A theater sits abandoned on Roosevelt Road, once majestic in splendor, now majestic in decay.

A chance to follow in the footsteps of the word's most legendary animator.

A section in the cemetery mostly for circus performers, including victims of the famous 1918 Hammond Circus train wreck.

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

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

Chicago’s incendiary role in the labor movement.

Pumpkin-like gargoyles and grotesques peer down from the rooftop of this unassuming apartment building in Illinois.

After an Illinois church was struck by lightning and burned down, Frank Lloyd Wright designed this replacement.

The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.

The first home and studio that belonged to the famous architect.

A plaque marks a former safe house on the secret route, now hidden next to a McDonald's.

The young Black revolutionary was killed before getting to see a non-segregated pool in his hometown.

The sign to a demolished amusement park now stands in front of a local library.

Inside the center are Italian works of art and a replica model of St. Peter's Basilica.

One of the finest examples of a black soil prairie that was barely saved by the Great Depression.

In a cemetery full of holy men, mobsters, and haunted graves, among the most remarkable graves an ordinary husband and wife's spinning headstone.

The overgrown remains of a folly temple/playhouse, in an unmaintained section of a Dupage County Forest Preserve.

Julia Buccola Petta's body was peculiarly well-preserved when it was exhumed six years after her death.

Burial site of the notorious Chicago gangster.

The company moved out of its sprawling headquarters, leaving plenty of traces behind.

Museum dedicated to the art of cutting and polishing stones.

Explore an underground labyrinth of miniature railroads.