Though it's thrived abroad, this forgotten Dunkin' rival has just one store left in the States.

The clothes-washing king doubles as a community center with some unusual features, including an aviary filled with finches.

This historic lavatory leftover features two levels of defecation stations completely without context.

A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.

Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.

A curious collection of miniatures in a quiet corner of the Chicago Children's Museum.

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

Assemble a masterpiece at the first and only North American school exclusively dedicated to mosaic art.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

The world's only known button museum.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

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

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

This small museum once served as a royal hunting pavilion for King Otto Friedrich Ludwig.

One of the greatest collections of coins in the world is housed in the former mansion of an archeological pioneer.

Overlooking the harbor is a beautiful neglected mansion guarded by two Egyptian sphinxes.

The site where hundreds of Greeks were tortured by the Nazi secret police is now a cosmetics store.

This striking sculpture of Icarus honors Greece's fallen flyers.

Learn about the sweet, storied legacy of beekeeping in ancient Greece.

This 200-meter-high waterfall marks the site of Achilles’s immortal baptism at the mouth of the River Styx.