James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

The history of funerals and funerary customs.

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

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

In a grove of fast growing walnut trees outside Paris, Illinois, a marker shares the story of a fictional road building culture.

The dream home of an iconoclastic renaissance man still stands as a monument to his domestically mundane vision.

Planes, trains, and automobiles have all been sunk as attractions at this Illinois diving spot.

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

The world's third-largest scale model of the planets.

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

A small abandoned and abused cemetery that has become a magnet for ghost hunters.

A six-story-tall golden pyramid, surrounded by a moat.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

If astronomy had a ghost, it would look like this observatory.

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

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

Museum dedicated to the art of cutting and polishing stones.

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