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

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

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

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

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

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

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

A Bibliophile's Dream.

A science teacher's dream.

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

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.

This legendary dessert was served to Nobel laureates for decades.

A Swedish farm is the world's only producer of the rare, creamy delicacy that is moose cheese.

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

A whimsical sculpture garden right out of a children's storybook.

A public display of random paleontology.

An old limestone mine transformed into a beautiful and unusual sculpture museum.

When this Iron Age bog body was discovered in 1835, it was thought that she had died recently.

Iron Age "bog person" preserved for over 2,300 years.

This secret collection of the strange and occult was rediscovered in a forgotten room of an old house.