Where a brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel, and a recluse met one Saturday and changed their lives forever.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

It was originally part of a "terrible lizards" collection at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

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

A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.

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

Meant for a railway that was never built because of the Great Chicago Fire, these piers still stand nearly 150 years after they were installed.