Places remcrae Wants to Go

The 40-year-old machine serves soda quicker than you can catch it for a mere 75 cents a pop.

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

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

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.

A six-story-tall golden pyramid, surrounded by a moat.

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

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

Assemble a masterpiece at the first and only North American school exclusively dedicated to mosaic art.

A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

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

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

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

Combination beer garden and music venue in the heart of Wicker Park.

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

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.

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

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

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

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

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