One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

The world's only known button museum.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

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.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans' graves.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

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

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

Nature and religion are reunited at this unconventional church in the forest.

This historic franken-chapel is the oldest wooden church in the world, at least part of it.

This stave church nestled in the Catskills was built in the 1960s by a community of Ukrainian immigrants and refugees.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

This fairytale medieval church in Poland originally spent centuries in Norway.

The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.