What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

A chance to follow in the footsteps of the word's most legendary animator.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.

Chicago’s incendiary role in the labor movement.

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

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

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

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

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

The oldest house in Chicago certainly doesn't look the part and there are some who say it doesn't deserve its title either.

Cold War missile launch site which has been converted to a public park.

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

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.

This house renovated by Frank Lloyd Wright was the centerpiece of a lavish 20th-century estate.

An exhibit of items from the mental institution where Mary Todd Lincoln lived after her son conspired to have her committed.

Train cars and railroad artifacts abound at this restaurant devoted to railway history.

Tombstones carved to look like tree trunks are used for multiple generations of family members.

The dream home of an iconoclastic renaissance man still stands as a monument to his domestically mundane vision.

Purdue students would lean over this iron fence to skirt campus rules against smoking and courting.

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

Museum dedicated to the art of cutting and polishing stones.

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.