Places toothbat Wants to Go

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

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

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

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

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

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

Former hotel turned into haunted playground.

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

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

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

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

The world's only known button museum.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

Pizza with a side of fine art.

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

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

A science teacher's dream.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.