diff --git a/src/array/darray.jl b/src/array/darray.jl
index 20722b8ed..8d8b5b663 100644
--- a/src/array/darray.jl
+++ b/src/array/darray.jl
@@ -608,12 +608,31 @@ function logs_annotate!(ctx::Context, A::DArray, name::Union{String,Symbol})
     end
 end
 
-# TODO: Allow `f` to return proc
-mapchunk(f, chunk) = tochunk(f(poolget(chunk.handle)))
-function mapchunks(f, d::DArray{T,N,F}) where {T,N,F}
-    chunks = map(d.chunks) do chunk
-        owner = get_parent(chunk.processor).pid
-        remotecall_fetch(mapchunk, owner, f, chunk)
+_unwrap_type(::Type{Union{}}) = Any
+_unwrap_type(T::Union) = mapreduce(_unwrap_type, Base.promote_type, Base.uniontypes(T))
+_unwrap_type(T::Type{<:AbstractArray}) = eltype(T)
+_unwrap_type(T::Type) = T
+
+function _mapchunks_eltype(chunks, f, d::DArray{T,N}) where {T,N}
+    if isempty(chunks)
+        RT = Base._return_type(f, Tuple{AbstractArray{T,N}})
+        return RT === Any ? T : _unwrap_type(RT)
     end
-    DArray{T,N,F}(d.domain, d.subdomains, chunks, d.concat)
+
+    # promote types across all chunks
+    types = [_unwrap_type(chunktype(c)) for c in chunks]
+    return any(==(Any), types) ? Any : mapreduce(identity, Base.promote_type, types)
+end
+
+_spawn_options(::Any) = Options(meta=false)
+_spawn_options(c::Chunk) = Options(scope=ProcessScope(get_parent(c.processor).pid), meta=false)
+_spawn_options(t::Thunk) = !isnothing(t.affinity) ?
+                           Options(scope=ProcessScope(t.affinity.first), meta=false) :
+                           Options(meta=false)
+
+function mapchunks(f, d::DArray)
+    new_chunks = map(c -> Dagger.spawn(f, _spawn_options(c), c), d.chunks)
+    new_eltype = _mapchunks_eltype(new_chunks, f, d)
+
+    return DArray(new_eltype, d.domain, d.subdomains, new_chunks, d.partitioning, d.concat)
 end
diff --git a/test/array/core.jl b/test/array/core.jl
index 0cdcb0456..c399c68c5 100644
--- a/test/array/core.jl
+++ b/test/array/core.jl
@@ -128,3 +128,38 @@ using MemPool
     @test (aff[1]).pid in procs()
     @test aff[2] == sizeof(Int)*10
 end
+
+@testset "mapchunks" begin
+    A = DArray(reshape(1:16, 4, 4), Blocks(2, 2))
+    B = mapchunks(x -> Float32.(x), A)
+    @test B isa DArray{Float32,2}
+    @test collect(B) == Float32.(collect(A))
+
+    D = mapchunks(x -> (x isa AbstractArray ? fill(true, size(x)) : fill(false, size(x))), A)
+    @test all(collect(D))
+
+    task_chunks = map(c -> Dagger.spawn(identity, c), chunks(A))
+    A_tasks = DArray(eltype(A), domain(A), domainchunks(A), task_chunks, A.partitioning, A.concat)
+    C = mapchunks(x -> x .+ 1, A_tasks)
+    @test collect(C) == collect(A) .+ 1
+
+    # heterogeneous chunk types 
+    domain_h = ArrayDomain(1:4)
+    subdomains_h = partition(Blocks(2), domain_h)
+    chunks_h = reshape(Any[Dagger.tochunk([1, 2]),Dagger.tochunk([3.0, 4.0])], size(subdomains_h))
+    A_hetero = DArray(Any, domain_h, subdomains_h, chunks_h, Blocks(2), cat)
+    B_hetero = mapchunks(identity, A_hetero)
+    @test eltype(B_hetero) == Float64
+    @test collect(B_hetero) == Float64.([1, 2, 3, 4])
+
+    A0 = DArray{Int}(undef, Blocks(1), (0,))
+    B0 = mapchunks(x -> x .+ 1, A0)
+    @test size(B0) == (0,)
+    @test eltype(B0) == Int
+
+    # scalar return
+    S = mapchunks(sum, A)
+    @test eltype(S) == Int
+    expected = [sum(A[1:2, 1:2])  sum(A[1:2, 3:4]); sum(A[3:4, 1:2])  sum(A[3:4, 3:4])]
+    @test collect(S) == expected
+end
diff --git a/test/imports.jl b/test/imports.jl
index dad3d02b2..d7cd96747 100644
--- a/test/imports.jl
+++ b/test/imports.jl
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 using LinearAlgebra, SparseArrays, Random, SharedArrays
-import Dagger: DArray, chunks, domainchunks, treereduce_nd
+import Dagger: DArray, chunks, domainchunks, treereduce_nd, mapchunks
 import Distributed: myid, procs
 import Statistics: mean, var, std
 import OnlineStats