A onetime gangsters' hideaway where you can dine on steaks, fine wines, and cigars just like they once did.

Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.

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

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

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

The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.

The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.

The clothes-washing king doubles as a community center with some unusual features, including an aviary filled with finches.

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

Tucked away amongst townhomes lies a restored, early 20th-century tea house and garden, the only remains of a historic estate.

People escaping slavery passed through the oldest house in Lombard, Illinois on their northbound journey to freedom.

Museum dedicated to the art of cutting and polishing stones.

A former atom smasher turned into an art gallery.

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

An exhibit of items from the mental institution where Mary Todd Lincoln lived after her son conspired to have her committed.

A hidden grotto on the grounds of the Kane County Government Center.