A theater sits abandoned on Roosevelt Road, once majestic in splendor, now majestic in decay.

The clothes-washing king doubles as a community center with some unusual features, including an aviary filled with finches.

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

Where a brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel, and a recluse met one Saturday and changed their lives forever.

Museum dedicated to the art of cutting and polishing stones.

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

A plaque marks a former safe house on the secret route, now hidden next to a McDonald's.

Despite its name, this fast food museum is actually a replica of the ninth McDonald's store.

This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.

A towering Art Deco movie palace made to look like a Mayan temple.

People escaping slavery passed through the oldest house in Lombard, Illinois on their northbound journey to freedom.

The sign to a demolished amusement park now stands in front of a local library.

Cold War missile launch site which has been converted to a public park.

An unassuming store hides relics of its former life as the jazz club that hosted some of the best black performers of the 1920s and '30s.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

In Chicago, a pizza-enthusiast has opened a museum dedicated to the history of pizza.

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

A relic of the Cold War in Chicago.

A long lost multi-cultural music venue used to reside in the bottom floor of Chicago's Flat Iron Building.

The faint remains of a Polish news empire still linger.

Parking lot where a Chicago mayor was inaugurated under very sketchy circumstances.

The last masonry skyscraper ever built reveals a transitional moment in architectural history.

A spectacular remnant of an Adler and Sullivan masterpiece that was destroyed in 1972.