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In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

A small cemetery chapel designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1906.

A house built specifically to shelter the dead.

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

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

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

Orthodox church partially financed by Tsar Nicolas II.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

The multinational Burger King chain is banned from operating within 20 miles of a family restaurant filed under the same name.

This botanical garden outside Chicago boasts an array of more than 300 varieties of lilacs.

The birthplace of a titan of American cinema.

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

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

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

Even with only two residents and one building, this tiny Illinois town is famous for its burgers.

A small abandoned and abused cemetery that has become a magnet for ghost hunters.

Oversized statues are just the tip of this nostalgic Americana roadside attraction.

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

The legacy of an unsolved, gruesome murder rests beneath the spans of this historic bridge.

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

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

A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.