Former bath house turns gastropub.

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

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

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

Grand opera on a miniature scale.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

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

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

A science teacher's dream.

The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.

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

This historic store hides a museum exhibiting a shoe-sizing x-ray machine and a pair of kicks that once belonged to the world's tallest man.

Just outside Chicago, one of the few traditional Mongolian restaurants in the U.S. serves a misunderstood cuisine.