Places stephradner Wants to Go

This castle constructed in 1928 was crafted from drawings of Lismore Castle in Ireland.

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

In 2004, a Dave Matthews Band tour bus dumped 800 pounds of waste off a bridge and onto an unsuspecting tour boat below.

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

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

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

Cold War missile launch site which has been converted to a public park.

A former atom smasher turned into an art gallery.

A science teacher's dream.

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

The inconspicuous grave of the University of Illinois' first president is just steps from the main quadrangle.

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

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

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

Kwanu'sila the Thunderbird has been silently watching over Chicago for more than 100 years (kind of).

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

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

Once a private collection, now the only museum of arms and armor in the Western Hemisphere - CLOSED.

An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.

She become one of the first women to serve in the United States military by secretly dressing like a man.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.