A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

An octet of classic chrome trailers speared into the ground act as a tribute to the silver bullets of the open road.

The strip club's VIP lounge is actually a rare repurposed Futuro House.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

A memorial to legendary newsman, publisher, and owner of La Gaceta, the only trilingual newspaper in the U.S.

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

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

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans' graves.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

Visitors come from all over to bring gifts and tokens to the grave of Alice, who is thought to have died of a broken heart.

These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.