Shops in Illinois

A wondrously macabre treasury of obscure antiques and unusual oddities.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

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

Oversized statues are just the tip of this nostalgic Americana roadside attraction.

This rare female version of the Muffler Man has its clothes removed each summer to signal the start of pool season.

An unassuming store hides relics of its former life as the jazz club that hosted some of the best black performers of the 1920s and '30s.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

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

This historic store hides a museum exhibiting a shoe-sizing x-ray machine and a pair of kicks that once belonged to the world's tallest man.

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

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

An abandoned meat mecca now serves as an excellent locale for urban exploration.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

You have to love a museum with a truly dedicated focus. A focus on Superman, for example.

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

The world's only known button museum.