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

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

This Detroit ruin was once a gothic bastion of its community, but now it stands as a haunting ruin.

This empty Detroit high school was too expensive to maintain or destroy.

One-layer pyramid in Indiana.

If astronomy had a ghost, it would look like this observatory.

This former Indiana quarry has been transformed into a park and SCUBA site where divers can explore the drowned mining equipment.

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

Urban explorers embraced America's now demolished first suburban mall, south of Chicago.

What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

A river with some unusual, and occasionally dangerous, habits.

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

Former bath house turns gastropub.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

The 606 is a decade in the making.

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

Combination beer garden and music venue in the heart of Wicker Park.

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

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

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.