"No writer ever gave more to a city and got back less.”

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

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

A Chicago Movie Palace Lost to Time.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

The iconic Chicago sculpture hides a beautiful and easily overlooked plaque on the backside.

In one Chicago park, a trio of werewolves are waiting to devour their fallen brethren.

This statue commemorates the meeting of the most influential minds of the women’s rights movement.

The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.

Where the oil industry began.

Golden plates containing what would become the Book of Mormon were believed to be buried on this New York hillside.

The press that first printed the Book of Mormon.

A field in which God and his son Jesus purportedly appeared to a young farm boy named Joseph Smith.

Eclectic architecture in the woods of New York.

The home, museum, and death site of Kodak's influential founder.

An antique cemetery in New York, this land is home to any number of famed corpses.

A collection of the best toys ever made, The National Toy Hall of Fame is filled with kids, fun, and for some reason, a bird preserve.

One of the largest festivals of flowers in North America takes place, appropriately, in the Flower City.

The largest guitar store in the world has been visited by some of music's all-time greats passing through upstate New York.

The gravestone of the suffragist leader attracted extra visitors during the 2016 election.

Rochester's signature culinary delicacy.

Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.