This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.

This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.

Chicago’s incendiary role in the labor movement.

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

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A science teacher's dream.

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

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

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

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

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

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

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

Hidden on the 7th floor of a historic building, this Cajun spot features wall-to-wall bottles of hot sauce.

The overgrown remains of an old rail bridge rise above the valley like ancient Greek ruins.

A tiny, unmarked beer and whiskey bar above an Ethiopian restaurant in West Philly fails to conceal live bluegrass.

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

This forgotten building was one of the few Philadelphia-area breweries to survive Prohibition.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.