Inside this museum resides a boot fit for a giant.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

Legend says Dungeons and Dragons players can get their dice blessed at the creator of the game's memorial.

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

A sprawling outdoor museum filled with larger-than-life works of art.

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

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

This modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

A small Chicago museum filled with thousands of preserved butterflies, beetles, and more.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

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.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

A Japanese temple, old German townhouses, and public chess tables offer a peaceful escape from the bustle of the North Side.

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

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

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

A menagerie of concrete animals brought together from across New York City's parks.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

This secret gem of a toy store houses a rideable carousel populated with fantasy animals.

Hidden in magnificent rolling countryside, see what may be the largest modern stone circle in the world at Wisconsin's very own "Stonehenge”