A chance to follow in the footsteps of the word's most legendary animator.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans' graves.

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

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

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

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

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

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

Assemble a masterpiece at the first and only North American school exclusively dedicated to mosaic art.

Pizza with a side of fine art.

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

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

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

The first and only museum dedicated to stained glass and horology opened outside of Chicago in 2017.

Roses and other fascinating flora fill this garden built to commemorate Britain's immortal Bard.

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

Home to the world's largest refracting telescope and the birthplace of modern astrophysics.

Grand opera on a miniature scale.

Take a break from all the boring business of death at this funeral home mini-golf course.

With 8,000 pipes this giant instrument is the most versatile theatre pipe organ ever built.

This softly rounded mansion was built without corners not to avoid evil spirits, but to make them more comfortable.

A river with some unusual, and occasionally dangerous, habits.

Recently celebrating its 25th anniversary, the garden opened in September 1997 to celebrate the men and women who have had the greatest impact on Key West.

A historic landmark and museum filled with curious objects representing the history of Key West.