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

Eclectic collection of rare and beautiful stones in a historic home.

This sprawling mini-golf empire is an impressive testament to a disappearing attraction.

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

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

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

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

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

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

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

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

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

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

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

The oldest bar in Missouri is hidden within a limestone brewery cellar more than 50 feet underground.