Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.

The multinational Burger King chain is banned from operating within 20 miles of a family restaurant filed under the same name.

World's second largest particle accelerator, where nature reveals its secrets.

These mansions date back to Chicago's days as a brewer's paradise.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

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

A monument to the art of slicing people open.