A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

It's gunky, it's gross, and it's been freed from the sewer and put on display.

Outside Hope College in Holland, Michigan, a marker honors a University without people from the fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.

The smallest useable chapel in Michigan is five-by-eight feet and has seating for three.

Outside Grand Valley State University, you'll find a bench upon which many were said to have sat according to the fictional Kcymaerxthaere, waiting for a guide of time.

The grandiose interior of this bar speaks to its past as home to famous jewelers and railway offices.

This log cabin gallery is one man's gnarly, hand-carved tribute to his favorite trees.

Large pioneer village showcasing life during boom times.

A charming remnant of 19th-century fishing towns sits on Michigan’s Leelanau Peninsula.

You were once able to challenge a chicken to tic-tac-toe at this park, which is now converted into the Aikman Wildlife Adventure.

Urban explorers embraced America's now demolished first suburban mall, south of Chicago.

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

The history of funerals and funerary customs.

In Chicago, a pizza-enthusiast has opened a museum dedicated to the history of pizza.

Fragments of a massive unfinished sculpture sit near the main quad of the University of Illinois.

A student designed this 3D-printed scale replica of the entire university campus.

Grand opera on a miniature scale.

Landmark Chicago building narrowly avoided destruction.

A spectacular remnant of an Adler and Sullivan masterpiece that was destroyed in 1972.

This rare female version of the Muffler Man has its clothes removed each summer to signal the start of pool season.

A Chicago Movie Palace Lost to Time.

People escaping slavery passed through the oldest house in Lombard, Illinois on their northbound journey to freedom.

Over 1,000 pieces of one of the most niche art objects imaginable: the glass paperweight.

One of the most powerful computers in the world can be visited by anyone who wants to experience more computing than they can handle.