Places Oops3ggs Wants to Go

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

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.

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

Designed by Alfred Caldwel, this landscape showcases his vision of a native garden.

An amazing collection of scale model ships.

Planes, trains, and automobiles have all been sunk as attractions at this Illinois diving spot.

The world's third-largest scale model of the planets.

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

An abandoned observatory in the middle of the Illinois prairie.

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.

Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.

A river with some unusual, and occasionally dangerous, habits.

The legacy of an unsolved, gruesome murder rests beneath the spans of this historic bridge.

Eclectic collection of rare and beautiful stones in a historic home.

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

Where old school Polish Chicago and young hipster Chicago live side by side.

The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

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

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

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.