Places tormentacelestial Wants to Go

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

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

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

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

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

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

Assemble a masterpiece at the first and only North American school exclusively dedicated to mosaic art.

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

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

A hidden network of subterranean passageways lies tangled beneath Indianapolis' bustling City Market.

The body of one of the world's most famous outlaws is covered in cement and iron to prevent it from being stolen.

This old steel industry company town has a tradition of parking cars on the sidewalk so people can walk in the narrow streets.

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

The statue's head is one of the few fragments of the original Urakami Cathedral to survive the atomic bomb.