Places AMHAT Wants to Go

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

Former bath house turns gastropub.

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

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.

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

The clothes-washing king doubles as a community center with some unusual features, including an aviary filled with finches.

A section in the cemetery mostly for circus performers, including victims of the famous 1918 Hammond Circus train wreck.

It was originally part of a "terrible lizards" collection at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.

Museum dedicated to the art of cutting and polishing stones.

The overgrown remains of a folly temple/playhouse, in an unmaintained section of a Dupage County Forest Preserve.

Julia Buccola Petta's body was peculiarly well-preserved when it was exhumed six years after her death.

In a cemetery full of holy men, mobsters, and haunted graves, among the most remarkable graves an ordinary husband and wife's spinning headstone.

Burial site of the notorious Chicago gangster.

A former atom smasher turned into an art gallery.

Explore an underground labyrinth of miniature railroads.

This botanical garden outside Chicago boasts an array of more than 300 varieties of lilacs.

People escaping slavery passed through the oldest house in Lombard, Illinois on their northbound journey to freedom.

Cold War missile launch site which has been converted to a public park.

Tucked away amongst townhomes lies a restored, early 20th-century tea house and garden, the only remains of a historic estate.

This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

World's second largest particle accelerator, where nature reveals its secrets.

This house renovated by Frank Lloyd Wright was the centerpiece of a lavish 20th-century estate.