On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

Don't bother sending any mail to this ghost town.

This historic aviation building is now a museum owned and operated by Disney.

An abandoned 1930s gas station turned bustling neighborhood park.

This childhood throwback has hundreds of arcade games and pinball machines to transport you back in time.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

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

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

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

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

The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

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

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

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

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

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

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

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

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

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

A small Chicago museum filled with thousands of preserved butterflies, beetles, and more.

Where dioramas can follow you home.