This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

This restaurant offers a side of antiques, curios, and a bathroom chock full of owls.

Prayers and messages of hope decorate the ceramic tiles of this pavilion.

One of the few remaining relics of the meatpacking hub that made Chicago the "hog butcher to the world."

This modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.

A former atom smasher turned into an art gallery.

A sprawling outdoor museum filled with larger-than-life works of art.

A source of civic pride, though the reason for its construction is unknown.

Tucked away amongst townhomes lies a restored, early 20th-century tea house and garden, the only remains of a historic estate.

One of the finest examples of a black soil prairie that was barely saved by the Great Depression.

This national park dedicated to the tallgrass prairie ecosystem still displays its military past.

This cheerfully-named branch of the Chicago River is the fetid result of years of blood, entrails, and meatpacking waste.

Burial mounds of prehistoric Native Americans who lived along the DuPage River.

An exhibit of items from the mental institution where Mary Todd Lincoln lived after her son conspired to have her committed.

A Japanese temple, old German townhouses, and public chess tables offer a peaceful escape from the bustle of the North Side.

Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.

Atop this media building, two hives containing more than 30,000 bees keep the surrounding area vibrant.

A muscular Art Deco monument represents the struggle between regulators and unbridled markets.