A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.

Direct, creative challenge to Mother Nature's winter wrath.

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

This historic motel standing at the "crossroads of America" offers a radio in every room and was saved by local protesters.

The abandoned remnants of a little sanctuary for world peace that fell into disrepair.

Four ionic columns from the Treasury Department building ended up in a park in Nebraska.

The largest collection of historical roller skates in the world.

A lifetime's accumulation of bric-a-brac and kitsch.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

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

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

The world's only known button museum.

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

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

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

A science teacher's dream.

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