Places phildzielski Wants to Go

Despite its name, this fast food museum is actually a replica of the ninth McDonald's store.

Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.

A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.

The remains of a Rockefeller's lush Italianate estate hidden in the underbrush on the coast of Lake Michigan.

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

Medical museum focused on antique anesthesiology equipment.

The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.

Arguably the best example of an authentic Dutch windmill in the United States, rivaling its counterparts in the Netherlands.

One of the last functioning antique elevators in Chicago.

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

This small, but long-running hobby club has built one of the largest model rail lines in the US.

First known as the "Sample House," this construction mash-up was meant to be a living catalogue of building styles.

Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.

This abandoned 19th century orphanage started as a boarding school for children of Civil War veterans.

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

Urban explorers embraced America's now demolished first suburban mall, south of Chicago.

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

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

Even with only two residents and one building, this tiny Illinois town is famous for its burgers.

A military museum and library dedicated to the citizen soldier.

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

These mansions date back to Chicago's days as a brewer's paradise.

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

Moving, mind-blowing metal sculpture work of an outsider artist.