This folk art wall claims to be the world's one and only memorial to the bygone age of hippies.

Planes, trains, and automobiles have all been sunk as attractions at this Illinois diving spot.

Location of the Real World's disastrous, and protested, eleventh season.

One of the first historical sites of an alternative universe was installed in the town of Paris, Illinois—which is now home to an annual spelling bee of Kcymaerxthaereal words.

This tiny historic jail along Route 66 is the perfect fit for exactly one criminal and their partner-in-crime.

A military museum and library dedicated to the citizen soldier.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

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

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

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

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

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

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.

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

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

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

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

A science teacher's dream.