This baseball diamond was home to the Rockford Peaches, a team featured in the hit film "A League of Their Own."

These Depression-era WPA sculptures have made a couple of stops over the years.

A Depression-era sculpture by Charles Umlauf survives in a small suburban post office.

A student designed this 3D-printed scale replica of the entire university campus.

The empty tomb that houses the memories of Roy Bertelli's revenge.

The poet’s boyhood home is now dedicated to celebrating his life and legacy.

A source of civic pride, though the reason for its construction is unknown.

The oldest experimental corn field in America is still creating better ways to grow crops.

The house is an iconic pilgrimage site for fans of the Illinois-based emo band.

The oldest house in Galena, Illinois, now is a reminder of when this city was the world's lead mining capital.

Grand opera on a miniature scale.

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

A long lost multi-cultural music venue used to reside in the bottom floor of Chicago's Flat Iron Building.

The sign to a demolished amusement park now stands in front of a local library.

A mini Wrigley Field for mini baseball players.

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

One of the largest carillons in the world, this giant instrument has 67 cast-iron bells played by a keyboard.

Abraham Lincoln's likeness rests at the top of this giant totem pole.

Parking lot where a Chicago mayor was inaugurated under very sketchy circumstances.

The faint remains of a Polish news empire still linger.

The last masonry skyscraper ever built reveals a transitional moment in architectural history.

This historic store hides a museum exhibiting a shoe-sizing x-ray machine and a pair of kicks that once belonged to the world's tallest man.

The young Black revolutionary was killed before getting to see a non-segregated pool in his hometown.

The famous Beatle secretly visited this Illinois town several times to visit his sister.