A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

The world's only known button museum.

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

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

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

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

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

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

Tucked away amongst townhomes lies a restored, early 20th-century tea house and garden, the only remains of a historic estate.

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

A turn-of-the-century architectural marvel built on healing mineral springs and salt licks.

One of Cincinnati's greatest fighters once trained at a now defunct gym in this Over-The-Rhine neighborhood.

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage train station tiles.

The oldest operating Mississippi River–style steamboat still navigates the Ohio River.