The Music Box Theater, Chicago, Ill.

Dubbed Chicago's "year-round film festival," this 800-seat movie palace is also the city's largest full-time theater space. Built in 1929 near Wrigley Field, the Music Box features a vintage ticket booth, ornamented sidewalls and an expansive dark blue ceiling sprinkled with twinkling stars and moving cloud formations—an "atmospheric" look designed to give the impression of sitting in an Italian palazzo. The independently owned theater even has its own ghost: The spirit of "Whitey," the Music Box's first owner, is said to protect his jewel of a theater.