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

An amazing collection of scale model ships.

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

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

This abstract sculpture is rumored to cast a hammer-and-sickle shadow once a year.

This Mediterranean castle was built for a millionaire and his giant dog.

Julia Buccola Petta's body was peculiarly well-preserved when it was exhumed six years after her death.

A towering Art Deco movie palace made to look like a Mayan temple.

One of the most powerful computers in the world can be visited by anyone who wants to experience more computing than they can handle.

This house renovated by Frank Lloyd Wright was the centerpiece of a lavish 20th-century estate.

A former atom smasher turned into an art gallery.

The murals have transformed a residential alley into a vibrant drive-through gallery.

A massive bur oak tree believed to be some 500 years old is the centerpiece of this quiet urban greenspace.

The young Black revolutionary was killed before getting to see a non-segregated pool in his hometown.

An Art Deco gem that held together the artistic heart of an agricultural community for 92 years.

Tucked away amongst townhomes lies a restored, early 20th-century tea house and garden, the only remains of a historic estate.

This simple gravestone remembers a pig who single-hoofedly raised $19,000,000 for the Navy.

This odd stone memorial remembers a loyal dog who offended the rail barons with his speed and saved his master with his pee.

Chicago’s incendiary role in the labor movement.

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

A theater sits abandoned on Roosevelt Road, once majestic in splendor, now majestic in decay.

Moving, mind-blowing metal sculpture work of an outsider artist.

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

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