Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

A quiet memorial marks the spot where the victims of the Salem Witch Trials were executed.

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

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

Partially submerged Buddha heads freckle Chicago’s neighborhoods.

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

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

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

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

The world's only known button museum.

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.

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

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

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

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

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