Take a trip back in time at this retro cinema dating back to 1954.

This small-town opera house has appeared much more in national culture and history than its charming setting might suggest.

A small cemetery chapel designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1906.

An actor's tribute to a former mentor.

See where Bill Murray kidnapped a hapless Punxsutawney Phil.

Burial mounds of prehistoric Native Americans who lived along the DuPage River.

This baseball diamond was home to the Rockford Peaches, a team featured in the hit film "A League of Their Own."

This unassuming city park is home to three different types of Native American mounds.

The young Black revolutionary was killed before getting to see a non-segregated pool in his hometown.

The study has wall paneling from a 17th century ship.

With 8,000 pipes this giant instrument is the most versatile theatre pipe organ ever built.

A massive bur oak tree believed to be some 500 years old is the centerpiece of this quiet urban greenspace.

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

The only place in America where anyone who wants can shovel coal aboard an antique train.

This house renovated by Frank Lloyd Wright was the centerpiece of a lavish 20th-century estate.

Where a brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel, and a recluse met one Saturday and changed their lives forever.

An amazing collection of scale model ships.

An exhibit of items from the mental institution where Mary Todd Lincoln lived after her son conspired to have her committed.

The original vault that held the president's remains still stands, empty, not far from where he was finally buried.

People escaping slavery passed through the oldest house in Lombard, Illinois on their northbound journey to freedom.

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

A collection of 11 million buttons illustrates the human toll of the Holocaust.

The carved remains of a 200-year-old oak tree memorialize the namesake of the iconic "Wizard of Oz" character.

It was originally part of a "terrible lizards" collection at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.