Places norajean2317 Wants to Go

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

A board game enthusiast's love for the game, memorialized forever.

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

Cold War missile launch site which has been converted to a public park.

Julia Buccola Petta's body was peculiarly well-preserved when it was exhumed six years after her death.

Burial site of the notorious Chicago gangster.

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

A plaque marks a former safe house on the secret route, now hidden next to a McDonald's.

What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.

A section in the cemetery mostly for circus performers, including victims of the famous 1918 Hammond Circus train wreck.

Chicago’s incendiary role in the labor movement.

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

These five houses were built for the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair.

Eternal resting place of the grave robber and murderer who served as inspiration for many of cinema’s famous madmen.

"Iron Age" creatures fill this huckster's rusted metal sculpture garden.

This quirky museum has a collection of more than 15,000 bobblehead dolls.

Enjoy a brandy old fashioned with this petrified pet in a bar devoted to the local press.

A house and yard adorned with bizarre concrete sculptures in a Milwaukee suburb.

See where Bill Murray kidnapped a hapless Punxsutawney Phil.

A private home collection of more than 3,500 cat figurines.

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

A forgotten Cold War relic hidden in the outskirts of a Wisconsin city.

Life-size statues of characters from 'The Wizard of Oz' stand at the one of the early screening sites for the 1939 movie.

One of the last surviving C-97s sits in a field in front of a Wisconsin inn.