This old steel industry company town has a tradition of parking cars on the sidewalk so people can walk in the narrow streets.

A beloved Chicago music venue offering cold beer and lots of “Friendly."

The world's only known button museum.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

A theater sits abandoned on Roosevelt Road, once majestic in splendor, now majestic in decay.

Pumpkin-like gargoyles and grotesques peer down from the rooftop of this unassuming apartment building in Illinois.

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

This former nursery supplied plants for the creation of Chicago's largest park.