The 40-year-old machine serves soda quicker than you can catch it for a mere 75 cents a pop.

Twice a year, this road is closed off to allow for the migration of thousands of snakes, reptiles and amphibians between cliffs and a swamp.

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.

Urban explorers embraced America's now demolished first suburban mall, south of Chicago.

Once known as the Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane.

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

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

Its eclectic exhibits range from the world’s first motorcycle to Luke Skywalker’s Land Speeder.

Over 1,000 pieces of one of the most niche art objects imaginable: the glass paperweight.

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

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

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

Museum dedicated to the art of cutting and polishing stones.

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

This abandoned 19th century orphanage started as a boarding school for children of Civil War veterans.

Eclectic collection of rare and beautiful stones in a historic home.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

Former hotel turned into haunted playground.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

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

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