Places mattduesing Wants to Go

An actual 1957 Cadillac De Ville, encased in 15 cubic yards of concrete.

This sprawling mini-golf empire is an impressive testament to a disappearing attraction.

A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

Oversized statues are just the tip of this nostalgic Americana roadside attraction.

Former hotel turned into haunted playground.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

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

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

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

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

The last remnants of a lakeside airport that was bulldozed overnight by the mayor of Chicago.

A relic of the Cold War in Chicago.

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.

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

Over 1,000 pieces of one of the most niche art objects imaginable: the glass paperweight.

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

What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.

Landmark Chicago building narrowly avoided destruction.

A 19th-century horse lover's bequest led to the construction of this unique fountain in Chicago.