Places abbynormal Wants to Go

A river with some unusual, and occasionally dangerous, habits.

Eclectic collection of rare and beautiful stones in a historic home.

Oversized statues are just the tip of this nostalgic Americana roadside attraction.

The legacy of an unsolved, gruesome murder rests beneath the spans of this historic bridge.

The mysterious white squirrels of this Illinois city are treated like sacred cows.

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

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

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

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

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

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.