A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

This sprawling mini-golf empire is an impressive testament to a disappearing attraction.

This tiny historic jail along Route 66 is the perfect fit for exactly one criminal and their partner-in-crime.

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

This rare female version of the Muffler Man has its clothes removed each summer to signal the start of pool season.

Medical museum focused on antique anesthesiology equipment.

Theater has had many different incarnations but has survived the ravages of time.

Museum dedicated to the art of cutting and polishing stones.

Chicago’s incendiary role in the labor movement.

Grand opera on a miniature scale.

The oldest house in Chicago certainly doesn't look the part and there are some who say it doesn't deserve its title either.

This historic store hides a museum exhibiting a shoe-sizing x-ray machine and a pair of kicks that once belonged to the world's tallest man.

A student designed this 3D-printed scale replica of the entire university campus.

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

Despite its name, this fast food museum is actually a replica of the ninth McDonald's store.

A towering Art Deco movie palace made to look like a Mayan temple.

Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.

Life-size figures portray depot attendants, train crew, and passengers frozen in time at the oldest railroad station in Arkansas.

The famous Beatle secretly visited this Illinois town several times to visit his sister.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.