Ruined pieces of stone and a swimming pool are all that remain of an amusement park swept away by a flood.

This historic house museum that celebrates one of the world's most influential social reformers is also one of the most haunted locations in Chicago.

Where dioramas can follow you home.

To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.

You can take a class, browse the library, or visit the lavish lair of an international men's humor society.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

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

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

The Kalamazoo factory has 100 years of instrument-making, and one big wartime secret.

Located in a Civil War era building, this café is engrained with the spirit of Edgar Allen Poe.

This museum remembers an apocalyptic cult that became more famous for baseball than religious radicalism.

Two dozen rescued bears roam (mostly) free at the largest bear ranch in the U.S.

The world's oldest operating jazz club has been in operation since May 1934.

A museum dedicated to the dead and the tools used to usher them into the afterlife.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

The remains of a religious colony, its amusement park, zoo, and baseball empire.

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.