Taxidermy, Cigar Store Indians, A Model of a New York Tenement and Delicious Draft Root Beer.

A six-story-tall golden pyramid, surrounded by a moat.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

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

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

Where Cusack's record store from the film "High Fidelity" was located.

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

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

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

This sprawling mini-golf empire is an impressive testament to a disappearing attraction.

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

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

The 606 is a decade in the making.

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

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 modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

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

First planned industrial community in the United States.

This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

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

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

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

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.