Learn about the history and craftsmanship of carousels inside this museum located in a former post office.

This NASA test station is home to some of the world’s largest and most powerful space environment simulation facilities.

Unique collection containing a wide and curious range of contraceptive items.

An unoccupied lighthouse encased in layers of ice from the waters of Lake Erie.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

A hidden grotto on the grounds of the Kane County Government Center.

Arguably the best example of an authentic Dutch windmill in the United States, rivaling its counterparts in the Netherlands.

The world's only known button museum.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

An abandoned meat mecca now serves as an excellent locale for urban exploration.

Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.

Oversized statues are just the tip of this nostalgic Americana roadside attraction.

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

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

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

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 tribute to one granddaughter's old apartment which now represents the whims of each visitor.

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

This historic Illinois "Muffler Man" has been converted from axe-touting lumberjack to rocket-wielding space ace.

What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.

In rural Iowa, an imported 19th-century windmill overlooks an unlikely enclave of Danish culture.