An off-the-beaten-path place to literally hang beneath Milwaukee's Holton Street Bridge.

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

Despite its name, this fast food museum is actually a replica of the ninth McDonald's store.

The oldest house in Galena, Illinois, now is a reminder of when this city was the world's lead mining capital.

This historic house museum that celebrates one of the world's most influential social reformers is also one of the most haunted locations in Chicago.

This historic store hides a museum exhibiting a shoe-sizing x-ray machine and a pair of kicks that once belonged to the world's tallest man.

Designed by Alfred Caldwel, this landscape showcases his vision of a native garden.

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

The study has wall paneling from a 17th century ship.

Now nearly abandoned, Kaskaskia was once the capital of Illinois and one of the most important towns on the upper Mississippi.

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

Where a brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel, and a recluse met one Saturday and changed their lives forever.

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

People escaping slavery passed through the oldest house in Lombard, Illinois on their northbound journey to freedom.

A collection of 11 million buttons illustrates the human toll of the Holocaust.

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

It was originally part of a "terrible lizards" collection at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

Today this bizarre rooftop phone booth seems like a piece of kitsch but it was once used to spot disastrous storms.

A historic beacon built in the aftermath of the worst maritime disaster on the Great Lakes.

The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.

This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.

Man-made geyser that rises to the exact height of the Gateway Arch.

First known as the "Sample House," this construction mash-up was meant to be a living catalogue of building styles.

A Japanese temple, old German townhouses, and public chess tables offer a peaceful escape from the bustle of the North Side.