Places wherearewedude Wants to Go

Amid the clacking of snooker balls, diners tuck into fiery Bhutanese fare.

This Peruvian-Chinese institution has perfected the art of rotisserie chicken—alongside plantains and lo mein.

Just outside Chicago, one of the few traditional Mongolian restaurants in the U.S. serves a misunderstood cuisine.

A small cemetery chapel designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1906.

At the largest railway museum in the United States, you can see everything from an early steam engine to a functioning Thomas the Tank Engine.

With 8,000 pipes this giant instrument is the most versatile theatre pipe organ ever built.

Its eclectic exhibits range from the world’s first motorcycle to Luke Skywalker’s Land Speeder.

This softly rounded mansion was built without corners not to avoid evil spirits, but to make them more comfortable.

This small-town opera house has appeared much more in national culture and history than its charming setting might suggest.

See where Bill Murray kidnapped a hapless Punxsutawney Phil.

This historic store hides a museum exhibiting a shoe-sizing x-ray machine and a pair of kicks that once belonged to the world's tallest man.

A board game enthusiast's love for the game, memorialized forever.

Cold War missile launch site which has been converted to a public park.

This botanical garden outside Chicago boasts an array of more than 300 varieties of lilacs.

People escaping slavery passed through the oldest house in Lombard, Illinois on their northbound journey to freedom.

Explore an underground labyrinth of miniature railroads.

Museum dedicated to the art of cutting and polishing stones.

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

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

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

What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

This former nursery supplied plants for the creation of Chicago's largest park.

The final resting place of one of Chicago’s most iconic drill rappers.