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

Taxidermy, Cigar Store Indians, A Model of a New York Tenement and Delicious Draft Root Beer.

In the loving memory of a tragically deceased role-player this Illinois park is decked out with both dungeons and dragons.

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

Chicago’s incendiary role in the labor movement.

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

Julia Buccola Petta's body was peculiarly well-preserved when it was exhumed six years after her death.

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

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

The home used in just a few seconds of film that came to define the setting of a hit sitcom.

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

Historians and hobbyists head to this former French outpost for the annual Feast of the Hunters' Moon.

Oversized statues are just the tip of this nostalgic Americana roadside attraction.

Even with only two residents and one building, this tiny Illinois town is famous for its burgers.

The multinational Burger King chain is banned from operating within 20 miles of a family restaurant filed under the same name.

The park that the Chicago Stockyards built.

After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

An impressive collection of dollhouses and an homage to the frog-leg canning industry.

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.