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

The bespectacled, cocktail-sipping pachyderm is a strange but fitting liquor store mascot.

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

A hidden network of subterranean passageways lies tangled beneath Indianapolis' bustling City Market.

The 40-year-old machine serves soda quicker than you can catch it for a mere 75 cents a pop.

Abraham Lincoln's likeness rests at the top of this giant totem pole.

You can take a class, browse the library, or visit the lavish lair of an international men's humor society.

Once an ornate movie theater remade by Catholic Charities.

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

A Chicago Movie Palace Lost to Time.

The hometown of Popeye's creator is littered with a growing collection of granite cartoon characters.

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

A curious collection of miniatures in a quiet corner of the Chicago Children's Museum.

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

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

Former bath house turns gastropub.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.

The legacy of an unsolved, gruesome murder rests beneath the spans of this historic bridge.

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

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

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

In one Chicago park, a trio of werewolves are waiting to devour their fallen brethren.

First planned industrial community in the United States.