Combination beer garden and music venue in the heart of Wicker Park.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

Where dioramas can follow you home.

Not to be confused with the iconic New York City skyscraper, this Chicago building is a vibrant hub for artists.

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

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

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

Orthodox church partially financed by Tsar Nicolas II.

In a quiet north Chicago neighborhood rests a stunning relic of the golden age of earthenware design.

You can take a class, browse the library, or visit the lavish lair of an international men's humor society.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

On the Irish coast, 18 members of the Howard family are eternally resting in an Egyptian pyramid.

This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.

These gigantic skeletons tower over visitors and provide insight into the creatures that once ruled over Ireland.

This colorful and fiery mural depicts the Irish folk story of the beloved hero Cuchulain.

A restaurant with an extensive Irish whiskey bar also has several first editions of famous works by Irish authors.

An Irish peat mine has become a stunning sculpture park.

A teddy bear sits on a chair watching the sunset from the mountaintop—just as the late Dan Clancy had done since childhood.

The house where the writer spent his formative years.

A tribute to the incredible generosity the Choctaw Nation showed the Irish people during the Great Famine.

This burial pyramid in central Ireland is thousands of miles and thousands of years away from its Egyptian inspiration.