A collection of 11 million buttons illustrates the human toll of the Holocaust.

Roses and other fascinating flora fill this garden built to commemorate Britain's immortal Bard.

A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.

A sprawling outdoor museum filled with larger-than-life works of art.

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

You can take a class, browse the library, or visit the lavish lair of an international men's humor society.

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

The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

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

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

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

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

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

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

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

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

Hidden on the 7th floor of a historic building, this Cajun spot features wall-to-wall bottles of hot sauce.

In Chicago, a pizza-enthusiast has opened a museum dedicated to the history of pizza.

This historic house museum that celebrates one of the world's most influential social reformers is also one of the most haunted locations in Chicago.

A military museum and library dedicated to the citizen soldier.

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.

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

Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.