A curious collection of miniatures in a quiet corner of the Chicago Children's Museum.

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

This circus town museum recognizes the outstanding clowns of history.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

An exhibit of items from the mental institution where Mary Todd Lincoln lived after her son conspired to have her committed.

According to the legend, this strikingly beautiful hill has miraculous healing powers.

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

This whimsical sculpture garden is a local treasure.

A mini Wrigley Field for mini baseball players.

Former hotel turned into haunted playground.

Its eclectic exhibits range from the world’s first motorcycle to Luke Skywalker’s Land Speeder.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

This architectural stunner is one of the few surviving Egyptian Revival theaters in the U.S.

A bypass decorated with large wooden troll carvings.

Amateur taxidermy museum known for its large collection of white squirrels.

Three playfully immersive mini golf courses let you travel alongside your ball to the cup at this facility, which has been around since the 1950s.

The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.

Every winter, the wind carves blocks of frozen water into beautiful abstract shapes inside this unusually curved tunnel.

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

Home to the world's largest refracting telescope and the birthplace of modern astrophysics.

The tunnel that runs beneath this former inn was once a hiding place for enslaved people seeking freedom.

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

This deceivingly ordinary warehouse hides an enormous collection of pop culture treasures.