This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

The neon signs from Las Vegas' past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

A multiversal transit station located right below a highway interchange.

This shrine commemorates the site of the first known Catholic mass in the United States.

A small Chicago museum filled with thousands of preserved butterflies, beetles, and more.

Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.

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.

The world's only known button museum.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

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

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

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

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

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.