Places cheyennestradinger Wants to Go

This horror movie and monster shop is like if a haunted house was a retail store.

The oldest purpose built museum in Illinois, home to original Victorian taxidermy.

The oldest functioning restaurant in the state of Illinois, operating since 1847.

Take a break from all the boring business of death at this funeral home mini-golf course.

Burial site of the notorious Chicago gangster.

A science teacher's dream.

A towering Art Deco movie palace made to look like a Mayan temple.

Chicago’s last original drive-in restaurant is a family-run hot dog joint that started in 1948.

After an Illinois church was struck by lightning and burned down, Frank Lloyd Wright designed this replacement.

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

You can take a class, browse the library, or visit the lavish lair of an international men's humor society.

This modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

This landmark of the Chicago silent film industry may not be in the picture business anymore but it still stands proudly.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

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.

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

A beloved Chicago music venue offering cold beer and lots of “Friendly."

A Bibliophile's Dream.

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

Where Cusack's record store from the film "High Fidelity" was located.

Orthodox church partially financed by Tsar Nicolas II.

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."