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

The inventor of the iconic Pringles can was so proud of his invention he was buried in one.

This humble star-gazing center touts itself as the "Birthplace of American Astronomy."

For over 100 years, this Indiana town has had a tree growing out the top of the local courthouse.

This library and museum is dedicated to the life and literature of the Indianapolis native author.

The largest historic preservation organization in the United States.

This elaborate estate contains a stunning marble aviary, a sunken conservatory, and a magnificent music room with a two-story pipe organ.

The body of one of the world's most famous outlaws is covered in cement and iron to prevent it from being stolen.

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

This tiny museum kept in a B&B laundry room holds the death mask of notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

Former bath house turns gastropub.

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

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

The world's only known button museum.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

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

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

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