Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

Each year, one talented artist puts on a show sculpting twelve butter-based busts of dairy princesses.

A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.

The dishes at this restaurant by The Sioux Chef celebrate indigenous heritage.

An old soap company building now houses one of Minneapolis’s oldest independent non-profit art galleries.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

The oldest continually used church in Minneapolis also sells great meat pies.

Come for the giant taxidermy lion, stay for the knick knacks at this Minneapolis curiosity shop.

A Perpetually Under construction Park.

A warehouse for all of your architectural details.

Australia's oldest artists' colony.

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

Pizza with a side of fine art.

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

Designed by Alfred Caldwel, this landscape showcases his vision of a native garden.

An eccentric park and pool.

A curious collection of miniatures in a quiet corner of the Chicago Children's Museum.

Former bath house turns gastropub.

These mansions date back to Chicago's days as a brewer's paradise.

Where old school Polish Chicago and young hipster Chicago live side by side.

In a quiet north Chicago neighborhood rests a stunning relic of the golden age of earthenware design.