The multinational Burger King chain is banned from operating within 20 miles of a family restaurant filed under the same name.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

The small family-run business has kept alive the fading art of creating beautiful handmade book covers.

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

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

Exotic feline breeding compound and conservation center.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.