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A military museum and library dedicated to the citizen soldier.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

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

A historic beacon built in the aftermath of the worst maritime disaster on the Great Lakes.

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

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

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

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

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

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

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

A Bibliophile's Dream.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

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.

More than 5,000 contemporary and "historic" mustards from around the world.

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

This graveyard is home to the so-called "Witch's Circle."

Probably the only remaining trace of a leprosy house in Wisconsin, reflecting a time when leprosy was uncurable and sufferers were isolated.

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

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

A small Chicago museum filled with thousands of preserved butterflies, beetles, and more.

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

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.