Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

A small abandoned and abused cemetery that has become a magnet for ghost hunters.

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

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

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

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

The iconic Chicago sculpture hides a beautiful and easily overlooked plaque on the backside.

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.

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

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

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

This small, but long-running hobby club has built one of the largest model rail lines in the US.

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

Tour the luxe "glass cage" that inspired and unnerved the architecture world upon its debut.

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

A six-story-tall golden pyramid, surrounded by a moat.

Amateur taxidermy museum known for its large collection of white squirrels.

One of the last surviving C-97s sits in a field in front of a Wisconsin inn.

The world's largest woodcarving collection includes dozens of Bible scenes and a wooden bestiary, all carved by one man.