Despite its name, this fast food museum is actually a replica of the ninth McDonald's store.

A former atom smasher turned into an art gallery.

These sprawling mines once served as a source of plaster and today serve as a storage facility.

For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.

An unassuming house in Wisconsin hides a transient artist’s magnum opus.

The home of 1.5 million wood letters for printing is still a functioning workshop.

A concrete block embedded with thousands of pulled teeth was created by a local dentist to memorialize his dog.

A museum celebrating the self-taught artist-environment builder.

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

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

A curious collection of miniatures in a quiet corner of the Chicago Children's Museum.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.

The original Garfield station is the oldest station facility on the "L", with the station house dating from 1892.

A strange rock in Chicago marks the spot where a tree once stood in honor of the 18th President.

Pizza with a side of fine art.

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

These chunky stone towers out in Lake Michigan are the key to Chicago’s drinking water.

In a quiet north Chicago neighborhood rests a stunning relic of the golden age of earthenware design.

Where old school Polish Chicago and young hipster Chicago live side by side.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

These mansions date back to Chicago's days as a brewer's paradise.

Huge abstract sculptures of the Puerto Rican Flag.

A theater sits abandoned on Roosevelt Road, once majestic in splendor, now majestic in decay.