Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

The world's only known button museum.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans' graves.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

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

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

The World's First 24 Hour Coin-Operated Art Gallery!! Plastic, Styrofoam, and Elvis--If you can't get rid of it, you might as well worship it!!

Forever immortalized in concrete, this Simpsons etching was crafted by show creator Matt Groening.

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

A memorial for the mustachioed record-setting runner.

This small, rural pioneer cemetery is full of interesting grave markers.

This Portland shop is brimming with natural wonders, local art, and handmade goods fashioned from recycled materials.

This graveyard is the eternal home of many brave pioneers who settled the Great Northwest.

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

This old-fashioned roadhouse's quirky neon sign is as famous as its enormous dumplings.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

This natural marble cave is one of only five national monuments in Oregon.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

Unknown to many, this sparkling turquoise lake hides amid Oregon's snowcapped mountains.

A delightfully quirky blend of oddities spread throughout an old 1920s bank.

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.