Places livelavalora Wants to Go

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

More than 8,000 drinking jugs say “Cheers!” to a guy named Toby.

A one-armed veteran of the Battle of Waterloo lies in a cemetery for one in the middle of a Chicago scrapyard.

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

Pizza with a side of fine art.

In the middle of Calvary Cemetery stands this singular memorial to a small boy who died too young.

In Chicago, an empty relic of a time when neighborhood zoos were more common.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

These murals have been brightening a Chicago beach for more than 30 years.

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

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

A chance to follow in the footsteps of the word's most legendary animator.

The final resting place of up to 6,000 Confederate soldiers, the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.

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

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

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

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

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

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

Also known as the Osaka Garden, this garden was originally built in 1893 as part of the World's Columbian Exposition.

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

The world's only known button museum.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.