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

Where dioramas can follow you home.

Combination beer garden and music venue in the heart of Wicker Park.

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

Chicago was once a major hub of film production, but being silent film you don’t hear much about it.

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

Friendships have been forged over ham and eggs every Wednesday morning for nearly a century.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

A musical sanctuary that preserves gospel’s Golden Age is tucked inside a library at Baylor University.

An old-timey wax exhibition campily depicting New Orleans legends and scandals.

The South's nickname was supposedly born at a former bank in New Orleans' French Quarter.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

The first American axe throwing club.