Places benrellinger Wants to Go

This antique shop features a large collection of ornaments amassed by an Ohio florist who helped decorate the White House for the holidays.

Once home to more than 50 displays of freshwater fish.

Urban explorers embraced America's now demolished first suburban mall, south of Chicago.

The NBA player's elaborate former home is now a ghost of its old glory.

A onetime gangsters' hideaway where you can dine on steaks, fine wines, and cigars just like they once did.

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.

The last remaining vestige of a popular 1999 public art display.

In one Chicago park, a trio of werewolves are waiting to devour their fallen brethren.

Pizza with a side of fine art.

From banquet hall to Masonic Lodge and now concert venue, Ganz Hall is a breathtaking glimpse of into the golden age of American architecture.

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

Medical museum focused on antique anesthesiology equipment.

Annual Easter display made up of thousands of hand-painted eggs.

A theater sits abandoned on Roosevelt Road, once majestic in splendor, now majestic in decay.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

An unassuming store hides relics of its former life as the jazz club that hosted some of the best black performers of the 1920s and '30s.

Hidden on the seventh floor of a historic building, this Cajun spot features wall-to-wall bottles of hot sauce.

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

In Chicago, a pizza-enthusiast has opened a museum dedicated to the history of pizza.