Where old school Polish Chicago and young hipster Chicago live side by side.

The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.

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

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

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.