While he no longer has an eatery to give him context, this off-brand Paul Bunyan still holds his giant hot dog with pride.

A sprawling outdoor museum filled with larger-than-life works of art.

Take a break from all the boring business of death at this funeral home mini-golf course.

This architectural stunner is one of the few surviving Egyptian Revival theaters in the U.S.

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

Oversized statues are just the tip of this nostalgic Americana roadside attraction.

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

This botanical garden outside Chicago boasts an array of more than 300 varieties of lilacs.

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

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

Where old school Polish Chicago and young hipster Chicago live side by side.

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

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

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

Former hotel turned into haunted playground.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

The world's only known button museum.

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

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