Places salemshinn Wants to Go

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

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

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

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

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

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.