When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

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

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.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

An abandoned meat mecca now serves as an excellent locale for urban exploration.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

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

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

One man’s vision of living among dinosaurs credits Jesus Christ as the engine of biological evolution.

Ancient petroglyphs discovered only after a massive fire swept across Michigan in the 1880s.

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.

143 feet of leaping muskie whose mouth can be used as a wedding venue.

A bronze plaque marks the site of the only show the "King of the Soul Singers" ever missed.

Almost half-way between the Equator and North Pole.

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

Entombed in this strange, white stone hill are the deadly remains of radioactive weapons production.