Entry No. 65 — the Chicago file — filed under: roadside-oddity

Volo Museum

What started as a 1960s collector-car dealership has sprawled into a 35-acre warren where Hollywood movie cars share space with salvaged ShowBiz Pizza and Chuck E. Cheese animatronics still wired to twitch. There's a Titanic exhibit, an animatronic-dinosaur garden, and four cavernous antique malls, one of which has a long-running reputation among ghost hunters. The collection's logic is pure accretion: famous TV vehicles, Disney and Looney Tunes displays, and cars once owned by the rich and infamous, much of it quietly for sale.

The move: Wander the animatronic-dinosaur garden and hunt for your favorite movie car, then poke through the reputedly haunted antique mall for a strange souvenir.

📍 Before you go Open daily 10am-5pm; admission around $16 for adults. About 50 miles northwest of downtown Chicago.

• 📍 Volo, IL
• 💸 $
• ⚡ Up for anything
• 🌗 Indoors

Where: 27582 Volo Village Rd, Volo, IL 60073

Hours: Added 2026-06-23 — confirm current hours before you go.

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last checked: 2026-06-23