Museum dedicated to the art of cutting and polishing stones.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

This titanic Catholic church in Chicago is also a refuge of the fictional cult-favorite wizard detective Harry Dresden.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

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

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

Orthodox church partially financed by Tsar Nicolas II.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.

This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

A sprawling outdoor museum filled with larger-than-life works of art.

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

After an Illinois church was struck by lightning and burned down, Frank Lloyd Wright designed this replacement.

Urban explorers embraced America's now demolished first suburban mall, south of Chicago.

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

Burial mounds of prehistoric Native Americans who lived along the DuPage River.

This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.

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

What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.

World's second largest particle accelerator, where nature reveals its secrets.

A tribute to one granddaughter's old apartment which now represents the whims of each visitor.

A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.

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