Medical museum focused on antique anesthesiology equipment.

An abandoned meat mecca now serves as an excellent locale for urban exploration.

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

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

A spectacular remnant of an Adler and Sullivan masterpiece that was destroyed in 1972.

Honoring Italian greats from Joe DiMaggio to Rocky Marciano.

This odd stone memorial remembers a loyal dog who offended the rail barons with his speed and saved his master with his pee.

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

A bloodstain from "the wound of the transverberation of the heart."

This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.

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

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.