The NBA player's elaborate former home is now a ghost of its old glory.

An abandoned meat mecca now serves as an excellent locale for urban exploration.

A onetime gangsters' hideaway where you can dine on steaks, fine wines, and cigars just like they once did.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

In Chicago, a pizza-enthusiast has opened a museum dedicated to the history of pizza.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

Pizza with a side of fine art.

Meant for a railway that was never built because of the Great Chicago Fire, these piers still stand nearly 150 years after they were installed.

Tiny treasures, giant murals, and strange sculptures decorate the windows and doors of this abandoned building.

The remnants of Peoria's proud baseball past stand slightly abandoned, but not forgotten.

Pumpkin-like gargoyles and grotesques peer down from the rooftop of this unassuming apartment building in Illinois.

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

Location of the Real World's disastrous, and protested, eleventh season.

A mythical bird etched into the face of a rock doubles as the mascot for a nearby school.

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

This historic Illinois "Muffler Man" has been converted from axe-touting lumberjack to rocket-wielding space ace.

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

The original Garfield station is the oldest station facility on the "L", with the station house dating from 1892.

Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.

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

Today this bizarre rooftop phone booth seems like a piece of kitsch but it was once used to spot disastrous storms.

A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.

Roses and other fascinating flora fill this garden built to commemorate Britain's immortal Bard.

Man-made geyser that rises to the exact height of the Gateway Arch.