This small museum boasts an impressive collection of both living and preserved insects, taxidermy, antiques, art, and other oddities. It’s the work of Nina Salem, who has amassed a collection of some 2,500 insects over the course of her life. Salem opened the Insect Asylum in 2022, wanting a space to share her passion for the natural world. “I didn’t have a school to learn all this, and I was told it was weird and it was wrong, and that’s not true,” she told Block Club Chicago. “So I want people to have…
