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

Take a break from all the boring business of death at this funeral home mini-golf course.

The remains of a Rockefeller's lush Italianate estate hidden in the underbrush on the coast of Lake Michigan.

The study has wall paneling from a 17th century ship.

Its eclectic exhibits range from the world’s first motorcycle to Luke Skywalker’s Land Speeder.

This softly rounded mansion was built without corners not to avoid evil spirits, but to make them more comfortable.

At the largest railway museum in the United States, you can see everything from an early steam engine to a functioning Thomas the Tank Engine.

This baseball diamond was home to the Rockford Peaches, a team featured in the hit film "A League of Their Own."

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.

Software company Epic Systems has created one of the strangest and largest workplaces of all time.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

The menacing creature had a tremendous influence on the local culture before being exposed as a hoax.

A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.

A bypass decorated with large wooden troll carvings.

This forgotten beach house built to look like a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece overlooks a hidden beach.

Where experiments are conducted on all things wood.

A hundred-year-old museum filled with giant physics toys and experiments designed by grad students.

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

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.

Chicago’s incendiary role in the labor movement.