Places wheninroam Wants to Go

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

This popular park is home to a sea serpent sculpture that now overshadows the twisted history of its creation.

This award-winning men's bathroom was just too beautiful to not allow women to see.

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

In Chicago, a pizza-enthusiast has opened a museum dedicated to the history of pizza.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

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

Once an ornate movie theater remade by Catholic Charities.

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

Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.

A curious collection of miniatures in a quiet corner of the Chicago Children's Museum.

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

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

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

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.

The world's only known button museum.

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

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.