CHICAGO -- Every displayed item has a story at The Insect Asylum, a vintage taxidermy museum in Chicago's Avondale neighborhood. Owner and founder Nina Salem has spent years curating her massive ...

CHICAGO — Owner and curator of the Insect Asylum Museum, Nina Salem, says she lives her life playing in dirt. You’ll see Salem’s lifelong collection on display at Avondale’s newest museum. She has ...

Step outside on any day of the year, at any time of day, and something small, very small, with translucent wings or several legs or a thorax or compound eyes or antennae is probably, strike that, most ...