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This weekend offers a little something for the wee ones, in advance of everyone's favorite make-believe holiday, Halloween (when, you know, you can wear stuff like  this ).  Hotel Transylvania  features the voices of Adam Sandler, Selena Gomez, Steve Buscemi, and CeeLo Green, and it tells the tale of a five-star resort where monsters can go to—get this—be safe from us humans. Hollywood loves to boost its products' escapist qualities by setting them in get-away-from-it-all locales. From L.A. to Vegas to Thailand, the stops on our list boast some very memorable hotels, which vary in their abilities to accommodate, relax, and terrify. The Chateau Marmont in  Somewhere  (2010). Having already perused the halls of a Tokyo hotel in  Lost in Translation , jet-set auteur Sofia Coppola keeps her home-away-from-home theme going in  Somewhere , which artfully observes the exploits of Stephen Dorff's Chateau Marmont dweller, Johnny ...

Photo: spiritofamerica/Fotolia Located in the Midwest, Illinois is home to Chicago, the third-largest city in the country as well as a major sports and cultural center. Illinois has many smaller industrial cities, bountiful natural resources, and intense agricultural productivity, especially in its central region. Book Cheap Accomodation Here Springfield Springfield, Illinois is the state capital, and it is renowned as the birthplace of America’s 16th president, Abraham Lincoln. Much of the tourism in the city focuses on this great man, and interested people may visit the Lincoln Home National Historic Site, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Lincoln’s Tomb, and the law offices where he practiced before becoming president in 1861. The Dana-Thomas House is widely visited, as it is the most complete example of Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture. The city is set on the plains near the winding Sangamon River, and the Ad...