This cemetery is all that remains of a school for "wayward" girls.

The hometown of Popeye's creator is littered with a growing collection of granite cartoon characters.

This cheerfully-named branch of the Chicago River is the fetid result of years of blood, entrails, and meatpacking waste.

This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.

The NBA player's elaborate former home is now a ghost of its old glory.

Take a break from all the boring business of death at this funeral home mini-golf course.

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

This architectural stunner is one of the few surviving Egyptian Revival theaters in the U.S.

Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.

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

A plaque marks a former safe house on the secret route, now hidden next to a McDonald's.

This abandoned 19th century orphanage started as a boarding school for children of Civil War veterans.

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

You have to love a museum with a truly dedicated focus. A focus on Superman, for example.

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

The 40-year-old machine serves soda quicker than you can catch it for a mere 75 cents a pop.

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

The mysterious white squirrels of this Illinois city are treated like sacred cows.

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

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

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

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

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.

This sprawling mini-golf empire is an impressive testament to a disappearing attraction.