These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

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

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

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.

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

This botanical garden outside Chicago boasts an array of more than 300 varieties of lilacs.

Cold War missile launch site which has been converted to a public park.

This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

Burial mounds of prehistoric Native Americans who lived along the DuPage River.

A onetime gangsters' hideaway where you can dine on steaks, fine wines, and cigars just like they once did.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

A larger-than-life version of the hat beloved by hunters, outdoorsmen, and Holden Caulfield.

No one knows the origin of this small town’s unique name.

World's second largest particle accelerator, where nature reveals its secrets.

Tour the luxe "glass cage" that inspired and unnerved the architecture world upon its debut.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.