A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.

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

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

Where dioramas can follow you home.

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

A long lost multi-cultural music venue used to reside in the bottom floor of Chicago's Flat Iron Building.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

Former bath house turns gastropub.

The home of 1.5 million wood letters for printing is still a functioning workshop.

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

The first and only museum dedicated to stained glass and horology opened outside of Chicago in 2017.

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

A former atom smasher turned into an art gallery.

Tucked away amongst townhomes lies a restored, early 20th-century tea house and garden, the only remains of a historic estate.

World's second largest particle accelerator, where nature reveals its secrets.

This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

A large circus museum with summer performances.

The remains of a enormous earthen figure of unknown origins cuts across a rural Wisconsin road.

Every winter, the wind carves blocks of frozen water into beautiful abstract shapes inside this unusually curved tunnel.

Software company Epic Systems has created one of the strangest and largest workplaces of all time.