This historic-shipwreck-cum-diving-spot can still be seen poking its boiler out of the Lake Michigan waters that claimed it.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

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.

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

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

A historic beacon built in the aftermath of the worst maritime disaster on the Great Lakes.

The first and only museum dedicated to stained glass and horology opened outside of Chicago in 2017.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

Pizza with a side of fine art.

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

A former atom smasher turned into an art gallery.

A hidden grotto on the grounds of the Kane County Government Center.

This cemetery is all that remains of a school for "wayward" girls.

This botanical garden outside Chicago boasts an array of more than 300 varieties of lilacs.

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

It was originally part of a "terrible lizards" collection at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

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

Learn about our ancestral eating habits at the passion project of an archeologist.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.