Places SemiruralYeti Wants to Go

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

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

Museum dedicated to the art of cutting and polishing stones.

A sprawling outdoor museum filled with larger-than-life works of art.

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

No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.

A curious collection of miniatures in a quiet corner of the Chicago Children's Museum.

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

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

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

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

The multinational Burger King chain is banned from operating within 20 miles of a family restaurant filed under the same name.

In the loving memory of a tragically deceased role-player this Illinois park is decked out with both dungeons and dragons.

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

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

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

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

The final resting place of up to 6,000 Confederate soldiers, the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

A beloved Chicago music venue offering cold beer and lots of “Friendly."

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

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.