Step back in time while shopping inside this local store.

What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.

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

The site of a 19th century "dream city" that almost rivaled Chicago before being swallowed by the Indiana sand dunes.

The remains of a religious colony, its amusement park, zoo, and baseball empire.

The Kalamazoo factory has 100 years of instrument-making, and one big wartime secret.

A quaint miniatures museum that turns its focus towards the lives of Americans in a simpler time.

The unusual medical inventions of the man who gave the world Corn Flakes.

Largest magic museum in the United States with more than half a million pieces of memorabilia.

Located in a Civil War era building, this café is engrained with the spirit of Edgar Allen Poe.

A Japanese temple, old German townhouses, and public chess tables offer a peaceful escape from the bustle of the North Side.

An actual 1957 Cadillac De Ville, encased in 15 cubic yards of concrete.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

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

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

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

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

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

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

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

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.