Take a break from all the boring business of death at this funeral home mini-golf course.

The study has wall paneling from a 17th century ship.

This whimsical sculpture garden is a local treasure.

Legend says Dungeons and Dragons players can get their dice blessed at the creator of the game's memorial.

A circus of light and sound forms a sensory ode to an iconic train that will never pass through town again.

The preserved remains of the former Milwaukee County Hospital for the Insane are hidden in the wooded grounds of County Park.

Behind a modern brick exterior lies the oldest continuously-operating lunch-car diner in the United States.

This storied music venue was once a tavern that housed an Italian Anarchist book club and prohibition parties; today it's a community space for artists and musicians.

A group of artists transformed this desolate city alleyway into an outdoor gallery of street art.

The oldest certified bowling alley in the United States is in the basement of this century-old bar.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

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

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

Tombstones carved to look like tree trunks are used for multiple generations of family members.

Modeled after the labyrinth in Chartres Cathedral, this small-town Indiana memorial labyrinth sits half a world away.

This small town specializes in a rainbow of corn snacks.

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

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.

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.