Theater has had many different incarnations but has survived the ravages of time.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

Send a postcard while vacationing with Satan.

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

A botanical hideaway sits inside the ruins of a half-built Civil War fort.

Here’s how Robert the Doll earned his reputation as the most haunted doll in the world.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

This cemetery is all that remains of a school for "wayward" girls.

This historic house museum that celebrates one of the world's most influential social reformers is also one of the most haunted locations in Chicago.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

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

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

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

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

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

A historic 1929 art-house cinema that features independent, classic, cult, and foreign films in an atmospheric setting.

A hidden oasis just north of Chicago's Chinatown.