A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

Amateur taxidermy museum known for its large collection of white squirrels.

Once a speakeasy operated by Al Capone, this Milwaukee cigar bar is now a haven for ghost hunters.

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

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

Moving, mind-blowing metal sculpture work of an outsider artist.

A chilling disappearance (and rescue) of a child uncovers a geological mystery.

Tour the luxe "glass cage" that inspired and unnerved the architecture world upon its debut.

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

A six-story-tall golden pyramid, surrounded by a moat.

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

A science teacher's dream.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

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

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

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

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

"No writer ever gave more to a city and got back less.”

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

At a museum of everyday objects, it is the act of collecting that is really on display.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

Where the leftovers of love affairs can live on forever.