Chicago’s incendiary role in the labor movement.

The clothes-washing king doubles as a community center with some unusual features, including an aviary filled with finches.

Museum dedicated to the art of cutting and polishing stones.

Its eclectic exhibits range from the world’s first motorcycle to Luke Skywalker’s Land Speeder.

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

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

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

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

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

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

A museum dedicated to man's boldest venture.

A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.

A remnant of the last Ice Age, this lake is surrounded by fascinating rock formations.

At the largest railway museum in the United States, you can see everything from an early steam engine to a functioning Thomas the Tank Engine.

Other-worldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

An unlikely Transcendental Meditation haven in the American Heartland built around the ancient Vedic principles of balance and harmony.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

This geodesic gallery holds a collection of painted spheres that make traditional canvases look lazy by comparison.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.